Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:52:45 -0700 From: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> To: mailinglists <mailinglists@debank.tv> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System mail Message-ID: <4C7D173D.7050100@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <824d2cbe5c0a6bb162552ca01f32dfc9,4C7CBD43.1050302@debank.tv> References: <4C7BFFA2.2070309@comcast.net> <20100830212149.19359d5c.freebsd@edvax.de> <a6786a929f1e7daa7b5b0eb534ef4a59, 4c7cb69b.7tFBWEqVHvBjt0Xt%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <824d2cbe5c0a6bb162552ca01f32dfc9, 4C7CBD43.1050302@debank.tv>
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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 Mutt can read directly from a mbox file like in /var/mail/ > You are quite right. I was thinking more on the lines of having system mail read by Thunderbird. Cheers..
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