On Tuesday 25 Oct 2005 19:20, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 25 Oct 2005 19:08, Derek Jennings wrote: > > > Kmail can be configured to use a local mail box. I am not sure how > > > you configure Thunderbird to use a local mail folder though. I will > > > have to look into is some day... > > > > > > Mikkel > > > > Not trying to be nasty. I suggested mail because if he has not set up > > the recipient for mails, then the messages are probably going into > > root's mail spool. He will not be able to read from root's mail spool > > with his Thunderbird mail client. > > Couldn't he set up a local mail account, just as we do in kmail? As for > reading root's messages, I would have thought that his application > would allow an alias for the mail? Certainly I get root's messages > from cron etc.. > > Anne You get mail from cron because you set up a recipient in /etc/crontab or else because you are running postfix and have set up an alias for root.
He can set up kmail to read from a spool file, but he would only have permission to read the spool file of the user kmail was running. (or else anyone could read anyone else's mail) What I do on those systems I do not run Postfix on is to install ssmtp (from contrib) and then set up an alias for root in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf then all roots mail comes into my normal mailbox. ssmtp is a simple mail transport. There are others, its just the one I found first. But I thought it was too complicated to explain all that just to read a single email so I suggested mail. Now I have explained it all anyway. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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