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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>
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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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