On Tuesday 14 April 2009 10:13:58 am Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-04-14 15:33 +0200, Randy Kramer wrote: > > I did find a way to put a soft linked file in my local kmail > > folders so I could get email sent to the administrator--this was > > something like a hard link to the normal location of root's email > > spool > > (maybe /var/mail/root?). > > Well, for this to work you need an MTA that does local delivery > anyway.
Well, there's a possibility I'm mistaken, but I was pretty sure that I didn't have an MTA installed or configured. Maybe my link was to somewhere other than root's email spool--maybe it was to the (an?) incoming mail spool? (Some day, when I have more time and interest, I'll try to reboot that system and double check.) > > Why would somebody need an MTA for a (normal) desktop? > > Local delivery of messages from cron jobs is probably the most common > case. I would not like to dispense with that. Thanks--even though I did get those, I rarely read them--only when something went wrong and I went looking for the cause. Randy Kramer -- I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I created a video instead.--with apologies to Cicero, et.al. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
