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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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