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

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 10/25/2007 09:00 PM, 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
> > 
> 
> No idea is this is even closely related to the
> subject at hand &
> apologies if it drifts the thread, but I thought I'd
> give it a shot
> anyway & hopfully you, Ed & Hal may know the answer
> given that the
> prompt comes up in tty; after the Gutsy upgrade I
> notice that if log in
> to root via the tty console I have a message: you
> have mail. No idea how
> to fetch this 'mail' or where the message is coming
> from as I don't have
> any mail systems running. If you guys know the quick
> & short answer I'd
> appreciate knowing, otherwise I'll open a new thread
> for the subject.
> 
Hey, Gary,
My experience with Debian was just opposite.  On a tty
console, once I signed in as user, then I got a
message "You have mail" and mutt would read it.  If I
logged in as root or did a su after login, mutt would
give an error that root can't do this or something
similar.  Of course, Debian setup gui(postfix or
whatever and during an install or reinstall) would ask
you who you wanted root mail to be sent to.  Haven't
seen that on Ubuntu that I recall.  FWIW.

Len


Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net