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

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Hal Burgiss 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.  Somehow this showed up in my inbox
>> which startled me and I accidently hit the send
>> button.  Now I'm explaining the second sending.
>> 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:
>
> 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.
>
>   
I just use the command: sudo root mail.