Getting Root mail in normal e-mail client

[Robin Laing]

Brian Gaynor wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 14:45 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> 
> 
>>I will add to this.  On my ISP's mail server, I cannot send mail out 
>>from my box using sendmail.  Even at work we have to modify the 
>>/etc/mail/sendmail.xx files to get it to work.  We had to get sendmail 
>>to masquerade the addresses for the mail server to accept our mail.
>>
>>At home I have resorted to using pine to look at my local mail.  I 
>>like pine though.  Must be my age showing. :)  I never could get 
>>Mozilla to read my local mail but again, I haven't tried much.
> 
> 
> You can always enable Dovecot (ships with FC) to get IMAP and or POP3
> access to those local accounts. Dovecot is easy to configure, and POP3
> and IMAP are widely supported by mail clients. 
> 

I will look into this.  I notice that it isn't installed on my work 
machine.

At work it is no problem to get it sorted.  At home it is another 
issue.  There are times that I would like sendmail to send out to the 
net but not necessary.

Thanks.
-- 
Robin Laing