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

[Hubertus Hiden]

Lee Braiden schrieb:

>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.
>
AFAIK Thunderbird _is_ the one.
What I've done was that I installed qpopper.
After that you can receive system mail from localhost using your username and passwd.


Hubertus