How does root read its mail in Ubuntu?

[Sandy Harris]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Tommy Trussell
<tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
What if I do not want to run postfix?

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Sandy Harris,
Nanjing, China