Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:31:24 -0200 From: Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> Subject: Re: Delivering system mail Message-ID: <200901260031.24297.gnemmi@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <497D0B57.8040804@comcast.net> References: <497D0B57.8040804@comcast.net>
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On Sunday 25 January 2009 11:01:11 pm Rem P Roberti wrote: > I currently have to retrieve crontab generated system mail from the comma= nd > 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 ma= il=20 get redirected to you ... In order to do so, open your /etc/aliases file, look for the line that read= s: # 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 =46rom then on, all mail directed to "root" (like those crontab send) will = be=20 forwarded to you .. so all you need to do is set up your mail client to pic= k=20 up it's mail from /var/mail/yourusername and there you go :) Hope that helps. Regards =2D-=20 Blessings Gonzalo Nemmi
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