On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Sébastien Leblanc <leblancsebas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 16 October 2012 01:42, gt <static.vortex@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Whenever I log in to a TTY, I get this message. I read my system mails >> through mutt, so i don't need this. > > Pam is taking care of showing whether you have mail or not. In > /etc/pam.d/system-login, comment this line: > > session optional pam_mail.so dir=/var/spool/mail standard > > You should not get new mail prompts anymore. > Great - this fixes the issue for me with a mail popup when logging in to KDE also - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/3199 -- mike c