On Wednesday 28 October 2009 19:35:00 Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Am 28.10.2009 17:47, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > Is your mail server really configured that local root mail needs a > > password? > > I don't have a local mail server on my desktop maschine. Sure, I could > install some kind of relay to my non-local mailserver but then I need to > store username and password in the config file of that relay.
You don't need a mailserver. Drop a text file formatted as mail in the admin users maildir, and point the mail client at it as just another source of mail. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com