Anacron mail -

[Bob Goodwin]

I have been using Linux for a long time and have yet to see a 
cron/anacron mail message.

In [root@Box10 bobg]# cat /etc/aliases I configured:

# Person who should get root's mail
root:        bobg

And after a bit of googling I dnf installed mail. Mail is difficult to 
use, has a long list of commands, but it did display about five hundred 
messages of which it displays several pages and stops, those are old 
from a couple of months ago while today's messages are all I am 
interested at the moment.

Is there a command to display only what I want, a specific day or 
perhaps reverse the order so that today's messages are at the top, 
display first? Better yet I would think would be to display them in 
Thunderbird but I don't know how to do that ...

Any help appreciated,

Bob

[Boris Epstein]

Have you considered installing something like IMAP on that machine to make
mail more convenient to read?

Boris.

On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Bob Goodwin 
wrote:
> I have been using Linux for a long time and have yet to see a cron/anacron
> mail message.
>
> In [root@Box10 bobg]# cat /etc/aliases I configured:
>
> # Person who should get root's mail
> root:        bobg
>
> And after a bit of googling I dnf installed mail. Mail is difficult to
> use, has a long list of commands, but it did display about five hundred
> messages of which it displays several pages and stops, those are old from a
> couple of months ago while today's messages are all I am interested at the
> moment.
>
> Is there a command to display only what I want, a specific day or perhaps
> reverse the order so that today's messages are at the top, display first?
> Better yet I would think would be to display them in Thunderbird but I
> don't know how to do that ...
>
> Any help appreciated,
>
> Bob
>
> --
> Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
> http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
> box10  FEDORA-24/64bit LINUX XFCE POP3
> _______________________________________________
> users mailing list -- [e-mail]
> To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 17 September 2016, Bob Goodwin sent:
> Is there a command to display only what I want, a specific day or 
> perhaps reverse the order so that today's messages are at the top, 
> display first? Better yet I would think would be to display them in 
> Thunderbird but I don't know how to do that ...

Most decent mail clients will let you read a local mailbox (read files
directly, without needing a mail server).  Try configuring yours to read
a local mailbox in:  /var/spool/mail/yourusername

It'll treat that the same as any other mail you work with (read, delete,
order the list of messages in the way that you want to, etc).