From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 26 02:31:28 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C9701065672 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:31:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnemmi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f17.google.com (mail-qy0-f17.google.com [209.85.221.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BEC18FC14 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:31:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnemmi@gmail.com) Received: by qyk10 with SMTP id 10so8863684qyk.19 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:31:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=sh14LotZLFjXqdQRxdzFISDr0hLTrVaQPJWvGCngKlw=; b=gNyWqa9ak5yarI3sC0PRuP6mzDwg6PK886bhIvNrS7j0geu1irKTgxbMogsrELFVAA nM3sa9yB+L+cvjRCF7J3aaBaikUZZayb5s/fQ+ZvoLWrBMdvmC7nJIwH2K8mR6P5IHhK EdpXlxiS12dAJLMsMXvUHaba3KJb8TmphWaPI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=x1HnU+Hdt8yJ6bO2MYLvYacez1ufzwFbJgQJbSVCCVYRyncge3FaUJpKdFTn81ydZG BcGEXKe49xjmMWvr4do4+Ftd7TcMcfyWJ5hlszGrpOJmoQwuQQk/iYkCDEB0T6f3S11U FNy2PsA160Zs08cJkK/4VPTtORzdc3Bdoqu/4= Received: by 10.214.218.4 with SMTP id q4mr708350qag.332.1232937087539; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:31:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.100? ([190.177.192.44]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm4296696ywo.10.2009.01.25.18.31.26 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:31:27 -0800 (PST) From: Gonzalo Nemmi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:31:24 -0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <497D0B57.8040804@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <497D0B57.8040804@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901260031.24297.gnemmi@gmail.com> Cc: Rem P Roberti Subject: Re: Delivering system mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:31:28 -0000 On Sunday 25 January 2009 11:01:11 pm Rem P Roberti wrote: > I currently have to retrieve crontab generated system mail from the comma= nd > line. Is it possible to have system mail delivered to my Thunderbird > mail client? > > Rem On a default system, you probably want to edit /etc/aliases an make root ma= il=20 get redirected to you ... In order to do so, open your /etc/aliases file, look for the line that read= s: # Pretty much everything else in this file points to "root", so # you would do well in either reading root's mailbox or forwarding # root's email from here. root: and edit it so it looks like this: # Pretty much everything else in this file points to "root", so # you would do well in either reading root's mailbox or forwarding # root's email from here. root: yourusername save the changes and run the following command as root: newaliases =46rom then on, all mail directed to "root" (like those crontab send) will = be=20 forwarded to you .. so all you need to do is set up your mail client to pic= k=20 up it's mail from /var/mail/yourusername and there you go :) Hope that helps. Regards =2D-=20 Blessings Gonzalo Nemmi