ral Posted January 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2003 Pardon my ignorance, but when does an email client "send messages to root" and why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted January 8, 2003 Report Share Posted January 8, 2003 "Pardon my ignorance, but when does an email client "send messages to root" and why?" I didn't say "an email client", I said "an application". Just two examples: 1. I used to have the entry MAILTO=root in the crontab file, so cron could email root about the status of tasks it performed. 2. lpd sometimes emails root, eg, about dequeued jobs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted January 8, 2003 Report Share Posted January 8, 2003 I just use Evolution. Just out of interest: can evolution be setup to get mail that fetchmail has spooled? Without setting up a server, of course. I always thought that fetchmail was THEE way until I read this thread, thanks for setting me straight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 8, 2003 Report Share Posted January 8, 2003 I just use gvim to read /var/spool/mail/$USER :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted January 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2003 Sorry about the misquote coverup. "1. I used to have the entry MAILTO=root in the crontab file, so cron could email root about the status of tasks it performed. 2. lpd sometimes emails root, eg, about dequeued jobs." I don't understand all this yet... but I will keep them both off for now and if I encounter any problems will turn postfix back on again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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