On 04/05/2014 06:35 AM, Robert Munro wrote: > On Fri, 04 Apr 2014 14:31:53 -0700 Russell Senior wrote: > >-- > > I do wish Mozilla would make it easier to directly access local mail > files in Thunderbird like Evolution does, because it's ridiculous to > have to run Dovecot merely to pick up chron job output sent to root. > > Robert >
Robert, Edit "/etc/mail/aliases" to include root: $USER where $USER is a regular username on your box. Then run "newaliases" to apply the change. I will assume the rest of sendmail (and daemon) is set up correctly to include "localhost" etc. (local-host-names, access, etc and /etc/hosts). Now create a new Thunderbird mail account but specify "Movemail" with $USER and $user@localhost. Set the username to $USER and server to "localhost" Now, from the $USER command line, do something silly like, $ echo "test me" | mail -v -s "A Simple Test" root Open Thunderbird and "get mail". YMMV, works fine here under Slackware-14.1 -Ed _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
