Re: root mail

[Robin Bowes]

David McCall wrote:
> 
> suppose I want to get mail as root.....
> is there a safe way other than routing it to another user?

mail to root goes to the alias user (as you obviously know...!)

I use mutt and have the following in my root user's .muttrc:

spoolfile='/var/qmail/alias/Maildir/'

So when I read mail as root I am actually reading the alias maildir.

R.
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