How to get rid of mail message?

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 at 16:32, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 at 16:31, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 at 15:45, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have started to see a pop-up message in my terminal with the following text:
> > >
> > > You have new mail in /var/mail/<username>
> > >
> > > If I look at this (it is actually not an  email, it is just a text file) it
> > > seems to contain output from an application which is scheduled to run hourly by
> > > at.
> >
> > It sounds like they may be cron emailing you (which is the default).
> > This is what I did to stop that (though I was just following something
> > I found somewhere so it may not be the best way, or may be out of
> > date.
> > Edit /etc/rsyslog.conf and add ,cron.none to these two lines so you have
> >
> > auth,authpriv.*,cron.none                      /var/log/auth.log
> > *.*;auth,authpriv.none,cron.none               -/var/log/syslog
>
> Ah, no, that was to stop cron logging, obviously.  Will have another
> look at my notes.

This is it I think. It is just a matter of redirecting the output to
null in the cron command.
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/disable-the-mail-alert-by-crontab-command/

>
> Colin