How does root read its mail in Ubuntu?

Steve Lamb grey at dmiyu.org
Tue Jun 17 17:06:15 UTC 2008


On Tue, June 17, 2008 10:02 am, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> 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.

    *cough* Exim *cough*  At least in Debian.  Not sure what Ubuntu ships
with as I generally don't run Ubuntu on servers and workstations do
perfectly well with nullmailer forwarding system mail to my mail server.

-- 
Steve Lamb





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