Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:01:00 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System mail Message-ID: <20100831170100.f0dadfd8.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4C7D173D.7050100@comcast.net> References: <4C7BFFA2.2070309@comcast.net> <20100830212149.19359d5c.freebsd@edvax.de> <a6786a929f1e7daa7b5b0eb534ef4a59, 4c7cb69b.7tFBWEqVHvBjt0Xt%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <824d2cbe5c0a6bb162552ca01f32dfc9, 4C7CBD43.1050302@debank.tv> <4C7D173D.7050100@comcast.net>
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On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:52:45 -0700, Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> wrote: > > >>>> 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. In this case, configuring the system's mail delivery to a local account instead of directly to root, and then have Thunderbird incormporate mail from local spool will easily do the trick. I don't have Thunderbird installed, but you should be able to find the correct setting. However, one *could* bypass the incorporation process and find a way to write the system messages DIRECTLY into Thunderbird's user mail storage, but I think that would be a crazy idea. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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