Getting Root mail in normal e-mail client

[Ben Steeves]

On 4/14/05, Neal Wilkinson <forums.lists at comcast.net> wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 02:05:05PM -0400, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I have logged into console and it said root had new mail (a lot
> >>actually) and I figured out how to read it there but how can I have it
> >>sent to my normal e-mail client?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >edit /etc/aliases and change the root alias to point to your user account.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> but how then will the mail program receive it? Don't I have to tell the
> program to look for it?

If you make this update, it will start forwarding root's mail to your
account.  To get the rest of the mail, cat root's mail file
(/var/spool/mail/root) to your own.

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