reading /var/mail

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Tue Oct 6 00:32:47 UTC 2009


On 30Sep2009 14:56, Steven Stern <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> wrote:
| On 09/30/2009 02:15 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
| > I want a SIMPLE GUI tool for reading mail in /var/mail.  Like for
| > /var/mail/root
| > 
| > I don't want a heavy hitter like Evolution or Thunderbird, and mail is
| > not a GUI.  I have used Webmin's reader, but I have systems that I do
| > not want to install Webmin on.
| > 
| > Are there other alternatives?
|
| mutt or pine

I like mutt too. For a GUI, run mutt in a terminal window:-)
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