System mail

[Joshua Isom]

On 8/31/2010 10:01 AM, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:52:45 -0700, Rem P Roberti<remegius at comcast.net>  wrote:
>
> In this case, configuring the system's mail delivery to a local
> account instead of directly to root, and then have Thunderbird
> incormporate mail from local spool will easily do the trick.
>

# echo "myusername" >> /root/.forward

Then all mail for root, like system logs, will be redirected to a 
different system user.

man 5 forward