From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28792 invoked from network); 25 Jan 1999 16:05:22 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 25 Jan 1999 16:05:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 26795 invoked by alias); 25 Jan 1999 16:03:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 4989 Received: (qmail 26784 invoked by alias); 25 Jan 1999 16:03:48 -0000 Resent-Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:03:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:02:36 -0500 From: Sweth Chandramouli To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: How to get rid of "The mail in ____ has been read." ? Message-ID: <19990125110235.A25806@astaroth.nit.gwu.edu> Mail-Followup-To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu References: <19990124221428.A9333@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <19990124221428.A9333@panix.com> Resent-Message-ID: <"ztUpg3.0.-F1.hN9hs"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2033 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Resent-Sender: zsh-users-request@math.gatech.edu On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 10:14:28PM -0500, Russell Hoover wrote: [snip] > My question is, how can I get rid of "The mail in ___ has been read" > without getting rid of "You have new mail" ? from scanning the manpages, it looks like setopt nomailwarning might be what you are looking for; it might be the exact opposite, however, since it isn't clear from the docs of the warning message is the one specified by mailpath (in which case it would turn off the "you have new mail") or the "the mail in ___ has been read" message. another thing to try might be to unset mailpath entirely in your .zshrc, and then use a precmd to do the check for you--it's kind of kludgy, but i've done similar things for checking on the status of certain important hosts, and it seems to work fine. -- sweth. -- Sweth Chandramouli IS Coordinator, The George Washington University / (202) 994 - 8521 (V) / (202) 994 - 0458 (F) *