i have e-mail but dont know how to check it!!

[LordStanley]

i just recently installed redhat 6.2. i have it running my pppoe adsl connection with pmfirewall and portsentry. when i logged in as root today i got a message that said "you have new mail" or something like that. the thing is I didnt setup any mailservices on this box. WTF how do i check the mail? is it portsentry emailing root with logs??

it's pretty wierd to turn on you machine and see some message come up for something you never setup!!!

i fanyone has any ideas please let me know!!!

[suckaMC]

It always says you have mail when you first log in as root. Its just a default message. Someone else who is less lazy can tell you about it. If you want to check it and have Pine installed, just type Pine...

[Strike]

Actually, you'd type pine, but I just use mail for local mail that goes to root.

[mdwatts]

Yes, mail will work from the commandline. Perhaps 'man mail' will give you additional info.

[LordStanley]

hey thanks for the help. it threw me off to see a message about e-mail when i never set anything up. I DID end up typing mail on the command line to get the message but my power went out last night and i couldnt get back on to reply so i just went to sleep.

for this e-mail do i need a command line email program or can i use something like kmail so i can have my pop3 email too?

[mdwatts]

'mail' will work from the commandline. Had a little experience with it while working on a project on AIX.

You can use a GUI email client while logged on as root and receive the same mail (I think). Using the commandline for anything is good experience especially when you are having X problems and need to troubleshoot using the console (commandline).

Even when using X, you will find yourself using a xterm to do a lot of your work. Not like Windows where most do not use the dos prompt at all.

[knute]

Actually you can set it up so that any messages that would normally go to root would be redirected to you as a normal user....

That is how mine is set up... Then I don't have to log in as root just to check and make sure that everything is ok...

By the way, I use mutt for my email...



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Knute

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