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.


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