F20 Where's my system mail?

Arthur Dent misc.lists at blueyonder.co.uk
Sun Apr 13 13:28:38 UTC 2014


On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 12:43 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:54:18AM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote:
> > 
> > Can anybody help me achieve what I want - either avoid the need for an
> > MTA altogether, or configure a simple MTA to process internal mail
> > internally?
> 
> If you are not sending emails over the internet, no configuration is
> required.  Just install an MTA like sendmail/postfix/exim and turn on
> the service with default configurations.  That should take care of all
> intenal mail.
> 
> I read system mail with mutt; my only setup is the following line in
> /etc/aliases:
> 
>   root:		<myusername>
> 
> Hope this helps,

That is fantastically helpful - thank you!

This means that I get get system mail for root (my main concern) but it
doesn't seen to give me cron output for jobs run as my normal user.

Can I achieve something similar for that? If so how?

Thanks

Mark



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