reading root's mail

[Jamie Griffin]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 05:13:36AM -0500, Glenn Holmer wrote:
> I installed mutt with its exim dependency and the administrative user
> (cenbe) is listed in /etc/aliases, but when I open mutt, I get
> "/var/mail/cenbe: No such file or directory".  Same thing if I run mutt
> as root.  In /var/mail, there's just one file, "mail".
> 
> Why can't I read root's mail?
> 

If mail for the root account is being processed and delivered by your MTA to /var/mail/$USER the file (if you're using mbox) will most likely be created when you've received the first email for that account. 


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