The Monday 2004-09-20 at 00:41 +0100, Martin Farmilo wrote:
Hmm - this just caught my eye. I've been running Suse for around 6 months now, and had wondered about this issue. Am I supposed to be receiving emails from the system ?
Yes. Not you really, but root.
If so, is there something special (perhaps in kmail) I need to do to receive them ?
Perhaps. You need to be able to read the local user mailbox. You can check to see if you are seeing it, by typing 'mail' on an xterm. If there is pending local mail, you will see it. Else, do a 'ls -l /var/spool/mail/' to see every users mail spool file. They should be 0 size if read. System mail is sent to 'root'. With postfix it is recommended (and necessary if local delivery is passed to procmail) to forward his mail to a normal user. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson