With bash-4.0 the mailcheck behaviour is annoying when there is a pseudo message in a mailbox, e.g.:
----- #cat /var/mail/yarda >From MAILER-DAEMON Wed Sep 30 14:07:09 2009 Date: 30 Sep 2009 14:07:09 +0200 From: Mail System Internal Data <mailer-dae...@onyx.mbox.eu> Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA Message-ID: <1254312...@onyx.mbox.eu> X-IMAP: 1254311191 0000000002 Status: RO This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software. If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created with the data reset to initial values. ----- When the bash starts it reports: You have mail in /var/mail/yarda It is very annoying especially in cases when starting bash frequently (e.g. from Midnight commander), because this message appears frequently. I think the bash should understand the pseudo message or there should be a switch for disabling old mail reporting. Or is there any way how to get rid of this message without removing metadata from mailbox or disabling mailcheck entirely?
