Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:45 -0400, Jacques B. wrote: >> Your solutions are either to setup a root cron job that runs a script >> that copies the root mail file to a new name where a local user has >> priviledge to read it (I copied it over and then did a send/receive >> and got all of root's mail). Or you could create a new group and add >> your unpriviledged user to it and then change ownership/priviledge on >> the root mail file to allow that group to be able to read it. > > I haven't seen anybody mention the easy way: Read your /etc/aliases > file, and put your username down the bottom where it gives you the > example of how to direct mail from root to another user, then run the > newaliases command that it tells you about at the top of that file. Then you missed several exchanges.... > e.g. root: mike > > Or you can do it as > root: Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > if your SMTP server sends with a real domain name. The OP had problems with that as it wouldn't go out for some reason. -- Whenever someone tells you to take their advice, you can be pretty sure that they're not using it.
