recieved mail printed in console

Reuben D. Budiardja techlist at voyager.phys.utk.edu
Wed Mar 17 16:14:03 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 17 March 2004 10:58 am, Kieran Hood wrote:
> im not sure what program is doing this but whenever new mail is recieved
> it is printed on the screen, I find this really annoying. Does anyone know
> how i can stop this from happening? thanks.

Type 'mesg n' in console. You can also put that in your ~/.bashrc so that you 
don't get it in any console that you started (assuming you're using bash).

RDB
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Reuben D. Budiardja
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