On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 16:32:44 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich (johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de) wrote:
> Virgo Pärna wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 19:09:29 +0000, David Jardine <da...@jardine.de> wrote: > >> Do you really want to do that? It's normal to have mail for root > >> diverted to an ordinary user account. Run: > >> > > > > The problem could be, that Icedove (at least in Lenny) doesn't have > > Movemail support - so you really cannot read mail from local spool with it. > > Since OP didn't specify how he reads 'ordinary' mail, we can only > speculate. There are at least two ways to solve your problem: > > 1) /etc/aliases with > /--------- > root: b...@foo.bar.org > \--------- > and forward root's mail to an external account. > > 2) or install some imap daemon and point icedove to it. or even (1b) #echo b...@foo.bar.org > ~root/.forward > This is all a shot in the dark, since we don't know OP's mail > configuration. Indeed. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
