Didn't affect it; though I should say that it isn't a periodic message (as if it were checking every minute) the messages are printed as the messages roll in, so I end up with a continuous stream of messages, making the terminal basically unusable. I also forgot to mention, both systems are slackware 10.2 hosts running postfix. On 10/4/06, Adam Maloney <adam at whee.org> wrote: > In bash, setting the MAILCHECK env variable to 0 should disable it. > > bash-2.05$ set | grep MAIL > MAIL=/var/mail/adam > MAILCHECK=60 > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Thomas Johnson wrote: > > > I'm testing a particular issue pertaining to SMTP for a client (the > > issue is irrelevant) and I have been sending huge amounts of mail > > between two SMTP hosts. The irritating thing that I am running into is > > that every time the servers receive a message to root I get a new mail > > notification on every root shell I have open to the system: > > > > New mail for root at slackware102 has arrived: > > ---- > > > > This gets irritating in a big hurry when I fire off a script that > > generates 40000 messages and I'm trying to look at other things as > > root. I know there are ways to work around this (sending mail to > > another user, sudo, etc.), but I would prefer to just suppress the > > messages if possible. I tried googling this and didn't find anything > > useful, I'm not even sure what service is responsible for printing the > > messages. > > > > Cheers, > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > >