kmail & system mail

[dave s]

On Thursday 06 October 2005 20:32, David Woyciesjes wrote:
> dave s wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 18:57, dave s wrote:
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>I am trying to get kmail to read my local mail, I know I have some ...
> >>
> >>
> >>dave at dave-comp:~$ mail
> >>Mail version 8.1.2 01/15/2001.  Type ? for help.
> >>"/var/mail/dave": 25 messages 21 new 25 unread
> >> U  1 root at localhost.lo  Sat Sep 24 16:07   23/966   Debconf: Ubuntu base
> >> ......
> >
> > With a bit of trial & error I got it working ! 'mutt docklock privelaged'
> > sorted it :)
>
>  This is something I'd want to do too. Could you post the details on how
> you got it to work? Thanks...
>
> --
> --- Dave Woyciesjes
> --- ICQ# 905818

Hi there,

Well it ended up pretty easy to do, 

boot kmail,
add a folder, I called mine 'system'
settings>configure kmail>accounts>add
local account>mutt docklock priverlage
and select folder 'system' for the mail to drop into

ctrl - L ... and kmail grabs all system mail for dave

To get system mail for root
sudo crontab -u root -e
and add the following
MAILTO=dave

Now the 'system' folder gets system mail for dave & root.

Hope this helps
Dave