You have new mail

[damo12]

I administer a server for a small business. I usually access it through Webmin without a problem. Today I logged in through Putty to restart Webmin and received a message saying "You have new mail". The server is only a file server and not a mail server. How do I read this mail.

Sorry for asking what is most likely a very obvious question.

[jay.parnaby]

It will most likely be a notification message from a process running on the server.

The easiest way to look at the mail file through putty would be to use

more /var/mail/<username>

[AlexDudko]

Perhaps, this is a system mail, which may report some problem or warning. Look in /var/mail or in user's home directory.

[prshah]

received a message saying "You have new mail". How do I read this mail.

In the terminal, type

mail

then "r" to read, "d" to delete, "n" for next message, and so on.

[damo12]

Thank you for your help, I'll give it a try and see what the message is.