Jim Newton wrote: > after giving myself write acces to the directory, /var/spool/mail > i can now read this mail with mozilla. great!. Now i'd also > like to set up a mozilla mail account so my user (jimka) can read > the mail from root. Since i'm the only user... is this possible? > In my fantasy, mozilla would ask me for a password in the same > way it asks me the password of a pop user on a foreign machine. > > > -jim >
it is considered bad form for root to have mail delivered to root. Add the line: root: jimka to /etc/aliases in order to have root's mail delivered to your user instead.
