Local mail problem

[Roger Grosswiler]

> I enabled nightly yum and wanted to get a report of what it did without
> having to go read the log and so I wanted to set it up via e-mail and
> logwatch as someone here suggested. I went to set up the mail account
> and in /var/spool/mail there were two files (root and one other system
> user) but none for my account. Both of these files showed locked. I
> don't understand why I had no mail file. In any case I went to bed
> without working on it further and wondered if logwatch would generate a
> file during the night. It did so as there is an e-mail there with my
> user name. I then went into Evolution and setup my mail account and it
> shows checking the spool but I don't get any mail. I did set
> up /etc/aliases for me to get roots mail and applied newaliases. I
> pointed Evolution to the file with my name in /var/spool/mail. Thanks.
>
> --
what "protocol" for your mailbox did you install in evolution??

Roger