OT: Use Thunderbird to pick up ROOT Mail?

[Mike McCarty]

Martin Marques wrote:
> Karl Larsen escribió:
> 
>> Martin Marques wrote:
>>
>>> Mike McCarty escribió:
>>>
>>>> I'd like to configure Thunderbird (and/or /root/.forward) so
>>>> that e-mail to root shows up in my INBOX, and a filter automatically
>>>> puts it into a Thunderbird folder (root). So far, I have not been
>>>> successful in this. I have Thunderbird pulling using POP from my
>>>> ISP. Anyone have advice?
>>>
>>>
>>> You'll need some kind of smtp to send the root mails to your mail 
>>> address on your ISP MTA. Then you will pull them out with all the 
>>> other mail you receive.

I don't like the idea of local notification of compromise
attempts possibly going outside the machine :-)

It's an idea, however.

>>    It is much easier to just yum install pine and when done you open a 
>> root Terminal and with pine read the root mail. It is not very 
>> interesting to me.
> 
> 
> He doesn't want to use terminal applications.

I used to use Pine some time back on a Solaris machine, so at
least I'm familiar with it. It's vastly superior to mail, and
worth a try at least. I doubt I can # yum install it, however.

Might get a tarball.

Mike
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