Fedora Users — Re: Root mail

One easy way to receive root's mail is to create a file called ".forward" in the /root directory - in the file, add your username or any other email address to automatically forward root's mail to. When root receives mail, it will also appear in your inbox - This way, you can simply ignore the actual root's mail altogether.

The other option is just to run Kmail (must be run as root) and add a local mailbox, using all the defaults (click next, next, next etc).

Andrew.

On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 13:11, Andrew Konosky wrote:

When running in text mode, I have noticed before that when I log in as 
root, I see the notification that I have new mail. I figured it was 
system mail, and read through some of it, but I am curious as to what 
generates it and why? I know one time I forgot to su before running a 
command and my computer told me it was going to "report" me, which I 
thought was pretty funny. What is cron? I see cron.daily and cron.weekly 
reports also.

I can read the e-mail though the console, but can I configure it like a 
regular mailbox in Kmail or Mozilla when running in graphical mode?