Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:21:49 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: System mail Message-ID: <20100830212149.19359d5c.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4C7BFFA2.2070309@comcast.net> References: <4C7BFFA2.2070309@comcast.net>
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On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:59:46 -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. It can act on is own to incorporate mail from a mail spool, e. g. /var/mail/<user>. This is often done by a kind of "local mailbox" selection (in opposite to incorporation from a distant mail box via POP3). For example, I have my system mail delivered to /var/mail/poly. This is the local mail box I check using the Sylpheed MUA (comparable to Thunderbird in many ways). You just need to configure your actual MUA to get mail from the system's mail spool. An extension of this concept, just as a sidenote: I use fetchmail to obtain the mail from my distant mail box via POP3. This mail is then placed into /var/mail/poly - the spool where Sylpheed reads from. This way, I have separated mail incorporation from mail processing. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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