Safely get rid of "You have new mail in /var/mail" on a Mac?

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Published on 2010-06-06T01:53:07Z Indexed on 2010/06/06 4:23 UTC
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I was messing around with sendmail in Rails a year ago and have had this message popping up in the terminal after every command ever since:

You have new mail in /var/mail/Lance

How do I properly get rid of that so the message goes away? I ever use any of that functionality and don't have mail on my computer. There's one file in /var/mail called lance, and it's huge. Can I just remove it?

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Safely get rid of "You have new mail in /var/mail" on a Mac?

Posted by viatropos on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by viatropos
Published on 2010-06-06T01:53:07Z Indexed on 2010/06/06 2:02 UTC
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I was messing around with sendmail in Rails a year ago and have had this message popping up in the terminal after every command ever since:

You have new mail in /var/mail/Lance

How do I properly get rid of that so the message goes away? I ever use any of that functionality and don't have mail on my computer. There's one file in /var/mail called lance, and it's huge. Can I just remove it?

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