Curiosity re: /var/spool/mail by beginner??

[Guillermo Garron]

Hi,
What you can do, is to edit (as root)
/etc/aliases
and uncomment the example
#root    marc
to
root      [your email]

and now you will receive all emails that are for root in your own mailbox,
this way you will never see the message "you have email" and also the
mailbox of root user will remain empty

regards,

Guillermo.


On 6/11/06, William Case <billlinux at rogers.com> wrote:
>
> Hi;
>
> This is just a curiosity question?  I have been using Linux (FC) for
> over two years now, and I have never found a use for /var/spool/mail.
> Whenever I login as root I get messages telling me that I have mail. I
> just clean it out every 5 or 6 months.  I read through it first using
> the mail utility but there never seems to be any information that is
> useful to me.
>
> I understand that on the original Unix systems 'mail' was how the system
> and the kernel would communicate with the user and root, but does it
> have any use now?
>
> Do people on the list use it anymore?  If so, for what?  How?  Or, am I
> missing something basic?
>
> --
> Regards Bill
> FC 5
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