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you mean besides pine, alpine, or elm?
found this online because I was curious (I don’t use it) about mail transfer agents. Maybe it helps
https://superuser.com/questions/306163/what-is-the-you-have-new-mail-message-in-linux-unix
Where is this mail?
It’s likely to be in the spool file: /var/mail/$USER or /var/spool/mail/$USER are the most common locations on Linux and BSD.
(Other locations are possible – check if $MAIL is set – but by default, the system only informs you about /var(/spool)/mail.)
Usually the spool file is in a very simple mbox format, so you can open it in a text editor or pager.
For a slightly more convenient way, most distributions come with a program called mail (or Mail, mailx). You can try mutt or alpine; you can even configure it to be sent to an outside mailbox. (See “is this real mail?” below.)
What does it contain, and who/what sent it?
Most often the messages contain output of cron jobs, or a system security report by logwatch, or similar junk. Read it and find out.
How important is it?
Depends greatly on the contents of each message.
You should at least scan the subject headers – often people ignore the mail for months never realizing that their daily cron jobs fail.
Is this even actual “mail” in the same sense as email? Or is it just my system telling me something?
Yes to both – it’s generated by your system telling you something, but it’s also actual email and can be handled as such.
You can (and should) configure your mail software – the “MTA” aka /usr/sbin/sendmail – to forward the messages to your personal mail address. The exact instructions vary depending on which MTA (if any) you have installed, whether this is a personal computer or a server, whether you have your own domain or use a @gmail.com, and so on.
Note that /usr/sbin/sendmail nowadays is a shared API and doesn’t necessarily mean the original Sendmail MTA. In fact, you shouldn’t use Sendmail, but something more modern like OpenSMTPD, Postfix, or Exim4. All of them provide the same /usr/sbin/sendmail tool, but they’re easier to configure, more secure, and just as powerful.
mv $(grep -l hey inbox/*) hey/
“hey” is in the Subject line.
Ref.:
https://www.unix.com/unix-for-dummies-questions-and-answers/91352-command-file-moving-emails.html
My Thunderbird was configured to update automatically, but when they upgraded the program to version 105 I put a halt to that and rolled it back to version 102. 105 broke too many things that I liked, especially the color schemes. So my suggestion would be uninstall your current version, reinstall the last version 102, then afterwards turn off the auto-update in both the config editor and the program itself. It’s the only thing that saved me the grief and frustration of dealing with programmers who forget how to keep a program user friendly.