Getting Root mail in normal e-mail client

Anthony J Placilla anthony_placilla at SUTH.COM
Thu Apr 14 18:10:47 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 14:07 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 02:05:05PM -0400, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
> > I have logged into console and it said root had new mail (a lot 
> > actually) and I figured out how to read it there but how can I have it 
> > sent to my normal e-mail client?
> 
> edit /etc/aliases and change the root alias to point to your user account.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
> Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>
> 


and don't forget to run "newaliases" after you make the edits



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