From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 26 04:42:13 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 9E31B106564A for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:42:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88E148FC14 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:42:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from OMTA03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.27]) by QMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 7qs81b00J0b6N64A64iER1; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:42:14 +0000 Received: from bsd.remdog.net ([76.102.24.75]) by OMTA03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 84iD1b0041dCpWs8P4iDvi; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:42:14 +0000 Message-ID: <497D3F25.5020400@comcast.net> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:42:13 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090124) To: FreeBSD References: <497D0B57.8040804@comcast.net> <200901260031.24297.gnemmi@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200901260031.24297.gnemmi@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 04:42:13 -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 command 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 mail get redirected to you ... In order to do so, open your /etc/aliases file, look for the line that reads: # 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 >From then on, all mail directed to "root" (like those crontab send) will be forwarded to you .. so all you need to do is set up your mail client to pick up it's mail from /var/mail/yourusername and there you go :) Hope that helps. Regards I had made the changes to aliases as soon as I set up the system. The only thing that I have yet to do is configure Thunderbird to go fetch user's mail. I'll try setting up a a rule to do that and see what happens. Thanks all for the help. Rem