Ok, what's the deal with the mail?

[t048]

When I log in as root, before I get my bash prompt it says "you have new mail". When I read it, it's mostly just "LogWatch for localhost". Usually there is nothing in the messages except for "beginning of log" and "end of log". How can I set up my normal use account to access my remote mail and say "you have new mail" when I log on?

[Guitarlynn]

All users on the box have an internal mail box (usually
sendmail). The system mails system logs/errors to root so
that they can be made aware of what's going on with the
system. It's nice from the Admin side of the system.

~Guitarlynn

[agar]

how do you view this mail?

[gorn]

how do you view this mail?

lets say your username is agar, then first do mail agar and send a friendly message to your self. then just run mail and you can read the email.

[Compunuts]

Or you can use Mutt client. Just issue mutt command and it should create profile for you and ready to read your mail.