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Re: [LI] mail for root



A simple solution to your problems is to set an alias for root in the /etc/aliases
file... set it to your account or any other account in it. For my host it is
    root:    sysadmins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

HTH.


MANNU

"L.V.Gandhi" wrote:

> Amit Mundra wrote:
> >
> > >Whenever I login as root I get msg there is a mail. But if inbox in pine
> > >is empty. What is this? Can somebody explain it please?
> >
> > this is because the "mail" software generates a mail with subject "DON'T DELETE
> > THIS MAIL". so, it puts a message that there's a new mail, but when u open PINE
> > to view it, it's not there. u can view it using the command 'mail' and delete
> > it. but the next time u login it will be generated again.
>
> How to avoid getting this mail  created. It was not there before. I
> don't remember what I have done after which this is started. Can anybody
> tell me ways to avoid this.
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> L.V.Gandhi
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