GUI to read Linux OS created mail

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 12 February 2007 18:34, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Arch Willingham wrote:
> > Is there an GUI app available that will allow you to read the mail
> > created by the operating system? Something besides the command line
> > "mail".
>
> You've been given some good suggestions.
>
> You may want to edit the file /etc/aliases, go to the bottom, and put in
> something like
> root:   arch
> (This is assuming that your normal username is arch.) That way, all the
> e-mail that would normally go to root actually goes to your username.
>
> Run the command newaliases to make the changes live.
>
One word of warning.  This works for all system mail directed to root.  If, 
however, you have cron jobs that run as user, and you need them reported to 
you as admin, you need to change the crontab for the individual.  The way to 
do this is described in the two manpages crontab(1) and crontab(8).  You need 
to enter MAILTO=root close to the top, before the details of the cron jobs.  
HTH

Anne
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