Re: System Mail question

From: W.D.McKinney <deem@wdm.com>
Date: Fri Jul 09 2004 - 22:51:59 AKDT

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 13:43, Dan Wolf wrote:
> Hi all,
> Recently I set up a new box with SUSE 9.1. During installation, when I got to the point of adding regular users (not root) there is a check box in the add user window to allow receiving system mail. I did not check the box and continued the installation along with adding all the packages and then updating everything.
> Is there a simple way to have the system mail be sent to my user account?

Yes, via Yast2 .

My SuSE 9.1 has /etc/aliases:

:/etc # cat aliases
# This is the aliases file - it says who gets mail for whom.
#
# >>>>>>>>>> The program "newaliases" will need to be run
# >> NOTE >> after this file is updated for any changes
# >>>>>>>>>> to show through to sendmail.
#
# It is probably best to not work as user root and redirect all
# email to "root" to the address of a HUMAN who deals with this
# system's problems. Then you don't have to check for important
# email too often on the root account.
# The "\root" will make sure that email is also delivered to the
# root-account, but also forwared to the user "joe".
#root: joe, \root

root: deem

<the rest is snipped>

Cheers,
Dee

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