Reading System Mail

Bob Chiodini rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Thu Oct 6 10:07:31 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 05:56 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> Good Morning Everyone:
> 
> One of my fedora systems has started notifying me that I have new mail
> waiting for me,  this system does not have external mail set up, so I
> know that it must be some form of system mail.  In the past I have
> installed webmin, and used that to read the mail, is this the best way
> to go, or is there a better way to get it?  Someone suggested pine,
> however the install is choking on a missing library which I cannot seem
> to find in yum (libldap.so.2)  I can initiate a search for that library
> via some of the online sources if pine is indeed the best way to go, but
> I would like to know what the best way is before I dedicate the time to
> tracking it down
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> TIM
> 
> 
> Timothy A. Holmes
> IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher
>  
> Medina Christian Academy
> A Higher Standard...
>  
> Jeremiah 33:3
> Jeremiah 29:11
> Esther 4:14
> 
> 

Tim,

What about /bin/mail.  Other mail clients, such as evolution can have
multiple accounts.  You could set one up for your local mailbox.

If this mail for root, you could alias root to yourself in /etc/aliases
to receive all future root mail.  Restart sendmail afterward.

Bob...




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