Root's email

[jimmy20013]

How do I access roots email on my FC5 box? Also is it necessary to setup sendmail to forward root's email to my ISP provided email account?

[Zigzagcom]

If you are logged on as root, open a terminal; see the below example. The type in bold are commands entered.

[root@localhost ~]# mail
Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help.
"/var/spool/mail/root": 1 message 1 new
>N 1 zigzag@localhost.loc Sat Sep 16 19:42 29/937 ""
& 1
Message 1:
From zigzag@localhost.localdomain Sat Sep 16 19:42:09 2006
From: Rick <zigzag@localhost.localdomain>
Subject:
To: root@localhost.localdomain
Cc:
X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1
X-Mailer: Webmin 1.290
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:42:08 PDT
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="bound1158460928"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--bound1158460928
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hi, this is mail from Zigzagcom to root.

--bound1158460928--

& q
Saved 1 message in mbox
[root@localhost ~]#

Check

man mail

[jimmy20013]

Thanks for the help.