Re: System mail

2010-09-01 Thread Joshua Isom
On 8/31/2010 10:01 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:52:45 -0700, Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net wrote: In this case, configuring the system's mail delivery to a local account instead of directly to root, and then have Thunderbird incormporate mail from local spool will easily do

Re: System mail

2010-08-31 Thread perryh
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:59:46 -0700, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/user, which is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to have system mail delivered to an email client, such

Re: System mail

2010-08-31 Thread mailinglists
On 31/08/10 8:00 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Polytroponfree...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:59:46 -0700, Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net wrote: At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/user, which is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to

Re: System mail

2010-08-31 Thread Rem P Roberti
At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/user, which is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to have system mail delivered to an email client, such as Thunderbird or Mutt? No. Per definition, a mail client (mail user agent - MUA) can not be the target of mail

Re: System mail

2010-08-31 Thread Rem P Roberti
At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/user, which is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to have system mail delivered to an email client, such as Thunderbird or Mutt? No. Per definition, a mail client (mail user agent - MUA) can not be the target of mail

Re: System mail

2010-08-31 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:52:45 -0700, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/user, which is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to have system mail delivered to an email client, such as Thunderbird or Mutt? No.

Re: System mail

2010-08-31 Thread Rem P Roberti
However, one *could* bypass the incorporation process and find a way to write the system messages DIRECTLY into Thunderbird's user mail storage, but I think that would be a crazy idea. :-) Agreed! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: System mail

2010-08-30 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:59:46 -0700, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/user, which is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to have system mail delivered to an email client, such as Thunderbird or Mutt? No. Per

Re: system mail

2006-12-04 Thread David Schulz
you could also place a .forward in the roots home folder... On Dec 2, 2006, at 9:52 PM, Joe Holden wrote: Jeff wrote: I run postfix on 6.x with local delivery disabled. I'd like to send the system messages to an outside address, eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Is

Re: system mail

2006-12-02 Thread Joe Holden
Jeff wrote: I run postfix on 6.x with local delivery disabled. I'd like to send the system messages to an outside address, eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Is this possible? Aliases will take care of that, /etc/aliases iirc. Ta, Joe

Re: system mail

2006-12-02 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Saturday 02 December 2006 14:50, Jeff wrote: I run postfix on 6.x with local delivery disabled. I'd like to send the system messages to an outside address, eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Is this possible? man 5 forward Create a '.forward' file in /root/ with the