How does root read its mail in Ubuntu?

[Tommy Trussell]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Steve Lamb <grey at dmiyu.org> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, you are right -- it's been a long time since I set up a new
Debian system so I forgot it defaulted to installing Exim. For
whatever reason the Ubuntu folks stuck with postfix...

from my (relatively unsophisticated) perspective, you set them up
pretty much the same way --

step1: dpkg-reconfigure <whatever>
step2:  answer the questions
step3: go back to step1 when it doesn't work