Safely get rid of "You have new mail in /var/mail" on a Mac?
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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…
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Fix for: Safely get rid of "You have new mail in /var/mail" on a Mac?
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The old school way is to open a terminal and use at the prompt, then to delete one message or for for four messages. Then to quit. If you don't want to delete them unread, just type Enter at the mail prompt and it'll show each message in turn. Use f…
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