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get rid of remove You have new mail in /var/mail/username on a Mac


open a terminal and use
mail
at the prompt, then
d
to delete one message or
d1-4
for for four messages.
Then
q
to quit

Hope it helped, I also want to give the credit of this answer to dmckee, whitequark for sharing the correct answer in 
http://superuser.com/questions/149282/safely-get-rid-of-you-have-new-mail-in-var-mail-on-a-mac

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