Re: How to read mail addressed to "root" from "root" user?
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 19:08:20 +0300, Jayson Willson
<jaysonwillson245@gmail.com> wrote:
>I would like to be able to read mail, which is addressed to "root" as
>"root" user. When I configured exim4-config, I have set "root" as user,
>which all the mail sent to "root" will be forwarded to. But now all the
>mail sent to root comes to /var/mail/mail, and when I run "mail" as
>root, I get message: No mail for root. Could you please tell me, what
>should I do, if I want to read root's mail from root account?
mutt -f /var/mail/mail
You should really have root's mail delivered to a regular user.
Greetings
Marc
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