How does root read its mail in Ubuntu?

[Tommy Trussell]

On 6/17/08, Sandy Harris <sandyinchina at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

you can run any mail transfer agent that you wish, or none at all, but
assuming root is getting mail, it has to get delivered somehow. The
standard with Debian/Ubuntu has been postfix but you can install
whatever you wish.