https://www.malcolmhardie.com/weblogs/angus/tags/mail/ Recent content in Mail on Angus Thinks Hugo en @2026 Angus Hardie Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.malcolmhardie.com/weblogs/angus/posts/2007/07/19/disable-you-have-new-mail-terminal-message/ Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.malcolmhardie.com/weblogs/angus/posts/2007/07/19/disable-you-have-new-mail-terminal-message/ <p>By default in linux you get a message saying something like</p> <p>You have new mail in</p> <p>when you log into a linux machine.</p> <p>Sometimes this gets annoying because you always have new mail, or because there seems to be a delay while checking the mail or because the mail is actually stored on some kind of remote disk.</p> <p>Disabling this setting is easy. Simply include</p> <p>unset MAILCHECK</p> <p>in your .bashrc file (for login shell) or .bash_profile (for non-login shells, i.e. ssh) and the message shouldn&rsquo;t appear.</p>