Getting Root mail in normal e-mail client

[Neal Wilkinson]

Robert Slade wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:53, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:20, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
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>>>>Matthew Miller wrote:
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>>>>>On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:09:56PM +0000, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
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>>>>>>I can change that file but how do I tell my mail program to retrieve it? 
>>>>>>In other words for a regular inet account I just need my user name my 
>>>>>>password, and the mail server settings. How do I set it up to receive 
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>>>>>It depends on your mail client. For many, looking at the local spool will
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>>>>I swap back and forth now between Tbird and Evolution. Right now I'm 
>>>>using Thunderbird. How would I go about it there?
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>>>Matthew,
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>>>Sendmail running on the FC box is what is handling the mail the root
>>>address is root at yourmachinename. If you edit that line to something
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>>>root yourname at youraddress, sendmail will lookup the mx record and send
>>>the mail there. If this is your address at your ISP you should get it
>>>there depending on firewalls etc.
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>>>Just my thoughts.
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>>>Rob
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>>but you mean in a different file than aliases right?
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>Sorry, edit the file /etc/aliases and remove the # before root, and then
>add the e-mail address you want the mail sent to. Once you have done
>that run newaliases and it will create a new file that sendmail can
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>Rob
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I've already done all that. I'll play with it some more.