On Sunday, March 12, 2017 11:05:31 PM Andy Smith wrote: > A better way to achieve the goal of being able to read emails to > root would be to edit /etc/aliases so that it contains something > like: > > root: sharon > > where "sharon" is your local user name. > > That would cause email for root to be redirected to your username > where you could read it with your usual mail reading software. If > you don't read email locally then you could probably instead send it > to the email address you have used here: > > root: boudic...@skimble.plus.com
Just for the sake of something (maybe collecting nits?), I believe this (that is, sending to boudic...@skimble.plus.com) will work only if (1) you have an email server installed (I'm pretty sure Debian does that by default, and (2) that email server is configured to send / relay mail via your ISP, which, ime, is not done by default on a Debian install. Instead many (or at least some) of us have what I call a Windows style e-mail client, that is, one that sends emails to others on the Internet directly from that email client using, for example, SMTP. I use kmail, getting my mail via pop3, and sending via SMTP.
