"You have new mail" being displayed in Terminal?

[Benjamindaines]

On my iMac when I start up terminal this is displayed...

Why is that showing up and how do I stop it. It didn't always do that, and it doesn't do it on any of my other computers.

--Thanks guys

 

[iMeowbot]

Those mail messages are usually produced by cron jobs.

There is a mail command that you can use from the terminal to read them. It's not especially user friendly, but just press return at the mail prompt to read them, 'd' for delete, 'x' for exit. man mailx for more details.

 

[grapes911]

Sounds like you have local mail from cron or some other program. I think you can just type "mail" and see what you have.

 

[Benjamindaines]

Ok, I got into the Mail command but how do I delete the messages?

 

[savar]

Ok, I got into the Mail command but how do I delete the messages?

when you're in mail, type something like "d 1" to delete message number 1, etc.