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przemaz
przemaz

Reputation: 399

linux system command mail - the GUI client?

Have anyone of you ever heard about some KDE or GNOME (GUI in general) application that can read system mail in Linux?

Using mail command or browsing the /var/mail/root files seems very inconvenient.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1741

Answers (1)

jpa
jpa

Reputation: 12176

Usually you should not use the root account to read the messages. Instead, forward the mail to your normal account or external email address.

The forwarding can be done in the mail server configuration, or more easily by creating a file /root/.forward with your e-mail address (and nothing else) in it.

Delivering to external addresses requires that you have configured an SMTP server to use; you can test if it works by sending a message with mail [email protected].

Upvotes: 1

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