On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:54:34PM -0700, Scott Taylor wrote
The ssmtp package sets up a simplistic mail relay that'll allow
local apps to send mail to localhost and ssmtp just forwards it to
a real mail server somewhere else. But you'll need to tell even it
where to send your root emails.
ME wrote:
Hi,
I feel a bit dumb here.
On my Redhat systems, when I open a root shell and have the message
You have new mail in /root, I just type mail and there I am
reading the messages on the command line.
With Gentoo, I get the You have new mail... message, but I don't
have the proper
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:07:41 -0800, ME [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With Gentoo, I get the You have new mail... message, but I don't have
the proper application to read it (and do not know what to emerge).
Moreover, I am not able to find the messages! I looked under /root,
under /var and did
quoth the ME:
Hi,
I feel a bit dumb here.
On my Redhat systems, when I open a root shell and have the message You
have new mail in /root, I just type mail and there I am reading the
messages on the command line.
With Gentoo, I get the You have new mail... message, but I don't have
the
I believe the application you're looking for is mailx, The /bin/mail program.
It is in portage.
I think messages are stores in /var/mail, don't take my word for it though.
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 12:11:56 -0800, darren kirby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
quoth the ME:
Hi,
I feel a bit dumb here.
Ryan Sims wrote:
This sometimes happens when the $MAIL environment variable gets set
wrong. The directory specified in that variable will be watched for
new mail; sometimes (I think this is mainly a problem with su, but
I'm not sure) it gets set to /root and gets confused.
I have the exact same
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:09:46 -0800
Steven Susbauer wrote:
I believe the application you're looking for is mailx, The /bin/mail
program.
It is in portage.
I think messages are stores in /var/mail, don't take my word for it though.
Where the mail is stored will very much depend on where
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:28:01 +0100, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ryan Sims wrote:
This sometimes happens when the $MAIL environment variable gets set
wrong. The directory specified in that variable will be watched for
new mail; sometimes (I think this is mainly a problem with
Ryan Sims wrote:
I put unset MAIL in my root's .bashrc since I'm running a
single-user system where that mail feature is pretty useless to me.
For other applications, that workaround might be a problem.
I know that I could just unset MAIL at every login, but thats a
workaround, not a solution...
Hi,
I feel a bit dumb here.
On my Redhat systems, when I open a root shell and have the message You
have new mail in /root, I just type mail and there I am reading the
messages on the command line.
With Gentoo, I get the You have new mail... message, but I don't have
the proper application to
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:07:41PM -0800, ME wrote:
Hi,
I feel a bit dumb here.
On my Redhat systems, when I open a root shell and have the message You
have new mail in /root, I just type mail and there I am reading the
messages on the command line.
With Gentoo, I get the You have
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