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Date:      Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:48:45 -0700
From:      Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net>
To:        perryh@pluto.rain.com
Cc:        freebsd@edvax.de, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: System mail
Message-ID:  <4C7D164D.1010003@comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <4c7cb69b.7tFBWEqVHvBjt0Xt%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
References:  <4C7BFFA2.2070309@comcast.net> <20100830212149.19359d5c.freebsd@edvax.de> <4c7cb69b.7tFBWEqVHvBjt0Xt%perryh@pluto.rain.com>

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>>>    At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/<user>,
>>> which is the normal way of doing things.  Is it possible to have
>>> system mail delivered to an email client, such as Thunderbird or
>>> Mutt?
>> No. Per definition, a mail client (mail user agent - MUA) can not
>> be the target of mail delivery ...
> Depending on what the OP had in mind, ports/mail/procmail might turn
> out to be (at least part of) a solution.
>

Actually, I do have procmail installed for use with Mutt, but I have 
never been able to create a recipe that works.

Cheers...



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