How does root read its mail in Ubuntu?

[Tommy Trussell]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Various daemon processes send messages to root at localhost.  How can I
> read that mail?
>
> In a RedHat system, I'd su - to root, and run pine.
>
> In the Ubuntu framework, what is recommended?

I believe in the default setup, all email that would ordinarily go to
root gets forwarded to the first user created in the system. You can
change the behavior by reconfiguring postfix.