Annoying email message

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SeaHag

Everytime I log in it tells me I have new mail but when I read /var/mail/<username> it's always telling me the same thing, that I edited a file several days ago. How can I get it to stop telling me this everytime I log in?
 
Those are recovery files. They are created by vi when it dies unexpectedly while you're editing a file, and every time you reboot there is an RC script that mails you about it.

Run:

Code: 
vi -r

To recover the files. If you don't need them, just :q!

Once they're recovered, you won't get any more emails.

Or you can add this to /etc/rc.conf:

Code: 
virecover_enable="NO"

That will shut the RC script up, but it won't stop vi from creating recovery files. See vi(1) for more information on that.
 
aragon said:
Those are recovery files. They are created by vi when it dies unexpectedly while you're editing a file, and every time you reboot there is an RC script that mails you about it.

Run:

Code: 
vi -r

To recover the files. If you don't need them, just :q!

Once they're recovered, you won't get any more emails.

Or you can add this to /etc/rc.conf:

Code: 
virecover_enable="NO"

That will shut the RC script up, but it won't stop vi from creating recovery files. See vi(1) for more information on that.
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sounds to me, like from different topic
 
It's still doing it. I've recovered these files but it keeps emailing me daily. Why doesn't it just send one then shut up? I don't want to disable mail notices altogether just stop these same ones about the same file that I've recovered many times.

I found some vi recover.* files in /var/tmp that contain the mail messages I'm receiving. I'm deleting them and see what happens.
 
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