Fwd: Re: Postfix, Mutt And No Root Mail?
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
Fri Oct 26 03:34:05 UTC 2007
--- Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 05:52:49PM -0700, Leonard
> Chatagnier wrote:
> > My apology to the user group for this second
> sending
> > of an old post.
<snip>
> > FWIW, this has all been resolved except I still
> don't
> > get root mail. Someone said that Ubuntu doesn't
> > support root mail. I could still use a good
> > explanation on why no root mail. Again, sorry for
> the
> > sending and still wondering how it got in my
> inbox.
>
> Leonard, I don't buy 'Ubuntu not supporting root
> mail'. I mean root is
> an account, and should be able to get mail. I get
> root mail on 7.04
> though don't recall what I might have done (or not
> done) to make it
> happen:
>
Agreed, just stating what one said on this thread.
I have mutt setup where I can send and receive email
with fetchyahoo and sendmail. Just don't know how to
activate or setup "root mail" in 7.04. Always had it
under several Debian releases and I think I had it in
Dapper. Can't remember having to do any setup for it
in past.
> y:Exit c:Chdir m:Mask ?:Help
> 1 drwxr-xr-x 49 halb halb 4096 Oct
> 25 22:11 ../
> 2 -rw------- 1 halb halb 1061193 Oct
> 25 07:37 root
> 3 -rw------- 1 halb halb 1307 Sep
> 08 13:30 junk
>
> That's a mailbox that get roots mail via a postfix
> alias, then
> through procmail filtering.
>
Not sure what the above is.
On the Debian setups, for mail(Postfix or whatever it
was at that thime) the GUI install configuration asked
for a user(ID) to send root mail to. I just entered
by user name and then I'd get root mail unless I
disabled it. Anyway, that's all I remember doing.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
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