On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:52:45 -0700, Rem P Roberti <remeg...@comcast.net> wrote: > > >>>> At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/<user>, > >>>> which is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to have > >>>> system mail delivered to an email client, such as Thunderbird or > >>>> Mutt? > >>> No. Per definition, a mail client (mail user agent - MUA) can not > >>> be the target of mail delivery ... > >> Depending on what the OP had in mind, ports/mail/procmail might turn > >> out to be (at least part of) a solution. > >> > > > > Actually Mutt can read directly from a mbox file like in /var/mail/ > > > > You are quite right. I was thinking more on the lines of having system > mail read by Thunderbird.
In this case, configuring the system's mail delivery to a local account instead of directly to root, and then have Thunderbird incormporate mail from local spool will easily do the trick. I don't have Thunderbird installed, but you should be able to find the correct setting. However, one *could* bypass the incorporation process and find a way to write the system messages DIRECTLY into Thunderbird's user mail storage, but I think that would be a crazy idea. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
