Reading System Mail

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 04:56, 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

Quick check:
ls -l /var/spool/mail
Files with any contents there are mailboxes for users of the same name.

As root, you can:
mutt -f /path/to/mailbox
and have a moderately intuitive text-mode interface to reading the
messages.

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  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com