System mail

[Rem P Roberti]

>>>    At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/<user>,
>>> which is the normal way of doing things.  Is it possible to have
>>> system mail delivered to an email client, such as Thunderbird or
>>> Mutt?
>> No. Per definition, a mail client (mail user agent - MUA) can not
>> be the target of mail delivery ...
> Depending on what the OP had in mind, ports/mail/procmail might turn
> out to be (at least part of) a solution.
>

Actually, I do have procmail installed for use with Mutt, but I have 
never been able to create a recipe that works.

Cheers...