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:
> >
> >   
> >> 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
> >
> >   
> try just mail instead of root mail
> 
> ed

# mail
# No mail for root

$ mail
$ no mail for username

However, I do have over a hundred emails(mostly ubuntu
list mail) in my yahoo web mail account.


Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net