Getting Root mail in normal e-mail client

[Neal Wilkinson]

Neal Wilkinson wrote:

> Robert Slade wrote:
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>> On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:53, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
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>>> Robert Slade 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 this mail?
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>>>>>> It depends on your mail client. For many, looking at the local 
>>>>>> spool will
>>>>>> just be the default.
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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
>>>> like:
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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.
>>>>
>>>> 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
>> read.
>> Rob
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> I've already done all that. I'll play with it some more.
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Is it my internet e-mail address or my local one?