How to remove the message You have new mail in /var/mail/root in Debian?

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Kirill2021-03-03 12:53:24

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Kirill, 2021-03-03 12:53:24

Often I see this message in the console, how to disable this functionality because this file is already almost a gigabyte

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Sanes, 2021-03-03
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https://www.stableit.ru/2011/05/debian-you-have-ne...

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Ruslan Fedoseev, 2021-03-03
@martin74ua

and read mail
or do echo -n > /var/mail/root ...
Well, then .forward in the root home and send it to the mailbox where it is read)