Probably not - at least not if your mail delivery agent is procmail. Creating a .forward isn't so bad. You can even procmail root's mail into a folder.
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 13:17, Art Alexion wrote: > Could I do a "chown" on /var/spool/mail/root? > > On 19 Jun 2003 at 21:05, Not Zed wrote: > > > > > Evolution wont let you do this, it will only let you lock a mailbox > > you own, it wont even let root lock someone elses mailbox. > > > > You should generally forward your root mail using an alias, or other > > local mechanism, to your own account (or another one). > > > > On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 15:52, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > > > In addition to my pop mail, I configured two local spools to view > > > local system messages. One for my local user messages, a spool type > > > pointed at /var/spool/mail/me, and the other for the system messages > > > delivered to /var/spool/mail/root. The user spool account works > > > fine, but the one set up to read the root's system messages refuses > > > to afford me access permission. I have done a chmod 666 on > > > /var/spool/mail/root to give myself permission, but that didn't do > > > it. That permitted me to look at the headers in the upper pane, but > > > whenever I try to retrieve a message, I get the message: "Error > > > retrieving message xxx. Could not lock /var/spool/mail/root." > > > (where xxx is the message number) Any suggestions? > > > > -- Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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