On Tuesday 25 Oct 2005 19:32, Derek Jennings wrote: > > You get mail from cron because you set up a recipient in > /etc/crontab or else because you are running postfix and have set up > an alias for root. > Yes
> He can set up kmail to read from a spool file, but he would only have > permission to read the spool file of the user kmail was running. (or > else anyone could read anyone else's mail) > > What I do on those systems I do not run Postfix on is to install > ssmtp (from contrib) and then set up an alias for root in > /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf then all roots mail comes into my normal > mailbox. > ssmtp is a simple mail transport. There are others, its just the one > I found first. > > But I thought it was too complicated to explain all that just to read > a single email so I suggested mail. Now I have explained it all > anyway. > I thought you were saying that something in Thunderbird would make it difficult to do that. Thanks for the alternative system, though. I'm sure it will be useful to others. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Mandriva hints & tips: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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