How to get rid of "The mail in ____ has been read." ?

How to get rid of "The mail in ____ has been read." ?

[Russell Hoover]

On a new unix account I have, if I set the MAILCHECK environment variable (in
~/.zshrc -- set there instead of ~/.zshenv to override the MAILCHECK setting
in /etc/zshrc), I get the following message when I exit my mailer (mutt):

"The mail in /home/2/r/rj/.mail has been read."  

(In fact I get it even if I don't set MAILCHECK, since MAILCHECK is set in
/etc/zshrc, the system's startup file -- I just get it less fequently then).

Since I'm using the maildir mailbox format in mutt, where each mail-message is
its own file, the message actually looks like this:

The mail in /home/2/r/rj/.mail//cur/916798766.10989_0.shell3:2,S has been read.
The mail in /home/2/r/rj/.mail//cur/916798766.10989_1.shell3:2,S has been read.
The mail in /home/2/r/rj/.mail//cur/916798766.10989_2.shell3:2,S has been read.
The mail in /home/2/r/rj/.mail//cur/916798766.10989_3.shell3:2,S has been read.
The mail in /home/2/r/rj/.mail//cur/916798766.10989_4.shell3:2,RS has been read.
The mail in /home/2/r/rj/.mail//cur/916842288.1278.shell3:2,RS has been read.

for however many messages are in my inbox.

Of course MAILCHECK also gives me the "You have new mail." message.

My question is, how can I get rid of "The mail in ___ has been read"
without getting rid of "You have new mail" ?

[shell3:~] uname -a
SunOS shell3 5.5.1 Generic_103640-23 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2
[shell3:~] echo $ZSH_VERSION
3.0.5

(I have a similar setup on 2 other machines and don't get this message.)

-- 
                              // rusty@panix.com //

Re: How to get rid of "The mail in ____ has been read." ?

[Sweth Chandramouli]

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.

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Re: How to get rid of "The mail in ____ has been read." ?

[Bruce Stephens]

Sweth Chandramouli <sweth@astaroth.nit.gwu.edu> writes:

> 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

Yes, I think that's right.  I don't think this affects the ordinary
"You have new mail" message at all.  I think the mail_warning option
is a special option for the paranoid; you get the ordinary message
just by setting mailpath, or MAIL.

Re: How to get rid of "The mail in ____ has been read." ?

[Peter Stephenson]

Bruce Stephens wrote:
> Sweth Chandramouli <sweth@astaroth.nit.gwu.edu> writes:
> 
> > 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
> 
> Yes, I think that's right.  I don't think this affects the ordinary
> "You have new mail" message at all.  I think the mail_warning option
> is a special option for the paranoid; you get the ordinary message
> just by setting mailpath, or MAIL.

I just confirmed this with the sources.  Something else I never knew.

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Re: How to get rid of "The mail in ____ has been read." ?

[Bruce Stephens]

Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it> writes:

> > Yes, I think that's right.  I don't think this affects the ordinary
> > "You have new mail" message at all.  I think the mail_warning option
> > is a special option for the paranoid; you get the ordinary message
> > just by setting mailpath, or MAIL.
> 
> I just confirmed this with the sources.  Something else I never knew.

I vaguely remember it being added.  And yes, it was as much for a joke
as anything.