How does root read its mail in Ubuntu?

[Avi Greenbury]

Paul Johnson 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.
>   
Personally, I su and run mutt.
My guess is that the 'recommended' method is to forward all mail to some 
other user. Though IME that's not configured by default
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Avi Greenbury