Can I view mail sent to root at localhost in Thunderbird?

[Lee Braiden]

On Wednesday 13 July 2005 22:56, Rainer Gutkas wrote:
> Everytime I login in a Textconsole I get the message you got mail.  This
> mail are system Messages, which are sent to root at localhost, which is
> redirected to rainer at localhost.
> I'm very interested in this mail, but I would like to it these mail's in
> my standard mail-program, Thunderbird.
> Is there a way to establish this?

Yes, all of your local mail goes to a mailbox in /var/mail.  You can just add 
a 'local mailbox' or 'mbox' account to your mail program, pointing it at this 
file, and it will pickup mail from there.  I do recall that one popular mail 
program didn't understand this very common local mbox system though; 
hopefully not Thunderbird.  Works fine in most mail programs, anyway.

In fact, most unix users probably have all their mail delivered through that 
file, even if it originally gets downloaded from an ISP's POP3 mailbox, or 
something.  This way, you can filter it through spamassassin etc., without 
having to watch patiently while spamassassin works in your mail program :)

-- 
Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com
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