On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 18:21 +0530, rada and gus wrote:
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 09:09, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
To have root's mail sent to you, edit /etc/aliases to have root's mail forwarded to you. (but I do not know where to do it in YaST2)
yast2>Network Services>Mail Transfer Agent>Next>Next>Forward root's mail to
I've been following this thread and noticed that I have a funny problem relating to receiving root's mail. I set this up on install, but somehow never got around to seeing root's mail till I read the thread.
I now noticed that I received root's mail in /var/spool/mail/"my user name".
In that file are included 19 messages mostly to root, but also 6 messages to my regular e-mail address! This address is a pop account from which I download (using mozilla) via my local ISP.
The pop server is in the US and I am in India. How could these six messages wind up in /var/spool/mail/my user ? Ordinarily my mail goes directly into my inbox in mozilla (folders which are in /home/myuser/.mozilla/~ . I am using Suse pro 9.1 with the packages from the CD's and some YOU updates. I have not otherwise changed any other packages.
This is really odd. Any ideas? Thanks, Gus.
When you set up the mail transfer agent in YaST, you must have configured fetchmail to collect your pop mail - that's the bit where you enter your pop server details and also where you want root's mail to go (YaST > Network Services > Mail Transfer Agent > Incoming Mail). If you prefer to use Mozilla mail to directly query the pop server, then you'll need to go into YaST and remove those details - but leave the setting to pass root's mail to the user.To get at root's mail, configure an account in Mozilla to access /var/spool/mail/user (I think it has to be set up as a movemail account)). What's happening at the moment is that Fetchmail is retrieving and removing some of your mail at regular intervals. When you fire up Mozilla, you'll get mail that has arrived in between Fetchmail polls, but miss all the other stuff (which is sitting in /var/spool/mail/user). David -- "Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance" -Sam Brown