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

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- ed <miller07 at suddenlink.net> wrote:

> Hal Burgiss wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 05:52:49PM -0700, Leonard
> Chatagnier wrote:
> >   <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. 
> >> <snip>     
> >
> > 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.
> 
Strange, all I ever did was run mutt from a CLI and
root mail was there.  Never have used the above (sudo
root mail).  Here's what I get:

lchata at ubuntu:/etc$ sudo root mail
Password:
sudo: root: command not found


Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net