Jonathan Kelly <jon(_at_)sunink(_dot_)com> asked:
can someone tell me what in the fetchmail/sendmail/procmail round-about is
blatting the
"New mail for jon(_at_)jonathan has arrived:" all over very tty I'm logged
into,
and can I turn it OFF!?!
Forgive my ignorance, but this may be platform-specific, but on
my Linux installation, the comsat daemon notifies the user of new
mail when biff is set to y.
There are a couple of ways to defeat it. One is to disable the
comsat daemon by commenting out the line that invokes it in the
/etc/inetd.conf file, if you are a system administrator. Be
aware, though, that this disables email notification for all
users.
Another way is to have the following in a script that executes
upon logging in:
biff n
As I understand it, what file you use is dependent upon your
shell. The bash shell, for example, reads a system-wide startup
file /etc/profile as well as some personal initialization files:
~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile.
As for myself, I have 'biff n' in my ~/.profile file to suppress
the notifications.
I hope this helps.
-- Mr. Wade
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Linux: The Choice of the GNU Generation