Getting Root mail in normal e-mail client

[Neal Wilkinson]

Ben Steeves wrote:

>On 4/14/05, Neal Wilkinson <forums.lists at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>Matthew Miller wrote:
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>>>On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 02:05:05PM -0400, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
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>>>>I have logged into console and it said root had new mail (a lot
>>>>actually) and I figured out how to read it there but how can I have it
>>>>sent to my normal e-mail client?
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>>>edit /etc/aliases and change the root alias to point to your user account.
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>>This is weird. In that file I have this entry.
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>># Person who should get root's mail
>>#root:        marc
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>>I don't have a user named marc
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>That's just an example (you'll notice it's commented out).  
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sure, still I wonder how the mail program would get it with my just 
changing that entry.