Getting Root mail in normal e-mail client

Neal Wilkinson forums.lists at comcast.net
Thu Apr 14 15:09:56 UTC 2005


Matthew Miller wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 02:27:10PM +0000, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
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>>>edit /etc/aliases and change the root alias to point to your user account.
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>>but how then will the mail program receive it? Don't I have to tell the 
>>program to look for it?
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>It'll just show up with all your other local mail (mixed in).
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I can change that file but how do I tell my mail program to retrieve it? 
In other words for a regular inet account I just need my user name my 
password, and the mail server settings. How do I set it up to receive 
this mail?




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