Fwd: Re: Postfix, Mutt And No Root Mail?

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- 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