Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:22:05 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Delivering system mail Message-ID: <20090126082205.8ccb6a89.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <497D0B57.8040804@comcast.net> References: <497D0B57.8040804@comcast.net>
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:01:11 -0800, Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> wrote: > I currently have to retrieve crontab generated system mail from the command > line. Is it possible to have system mail delivered to my Thunderbird > mail client? In most cases, system mail will be sent to root. If you edit the file /etc/mail/aliases, you can redirect any mail sent to root to your local user account (/var/mail/<yourname>) and then use TB to retrieve it from there (just as it would have been recieved by fetchmail). Don't forget to "make aliases" and restart the sendmail subsystem, see /etc/mail/Makefile for details. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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