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

[Leonard Chatagnier]

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

> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > --- 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
> >
> >   
> sorry, that was sudo -i enter password then command
> root mail. If you 
> still get command not found then you might need to
> apt-get mail and see 
> whats available for installation.
>
Sorry Ed, didn't work for me.  I get:

lchata at ubuntu:/etc$ sudo -i
Password:
root at ubuntu:~# root mail
-bash: root: command not found
root at ubuntu:~# command root mail
-bash: root: command not found
root at ubuntu:~# 

Also did an apt-cache search mail with lots of output
but nothing relating to "root mail"
Usually when someone gives me a two word command to
try it's no a correct syntax.  Perhaps you assumed I'd
know something that I don't.

Len

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net