'updatedb' : is it really mandatory, can I switch it off and how ?!

[Wouter Eerdekens]

You can read these mails with Evolution as well. Just creaate a new
account and pick "Standard Unix mbox spool or directory" as Server Type.
You can specify which file under /var/mail/ you want to read.

Or, if you prefer the commandline, 'mutt' is a very fine mail reader. By
default, it reads /var/mail/<your uid>.

When you use one of these programs you have some added benefits:

- they mark read mail
- you can delete/save/export specific mails
...

Cheers,
Wouter

On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 07:02:43AM +0100, Trouilliez Vincent wrote:
> > it's local mail; by default there are no open port on an Ubuntu
> > machines toward the outside world; so no external e-mails can reach
> > your computer unless you explicitly open postfix to the outside world.
> > 
> > If a local job on a machine has an error or something, sometimes it
> > will generate an e-mail and send it to the account "root".  I believe
> > in Ubuntu this will by default get forwarded to the first user of the
> > system, probably you here.
> > 
> > >From an xterm, type "mail" to see these local e-mails.  Or simply
> > check the files in the directory /var/mail/
> 
> 
> Thanks Daniel, I don't stop learning on this list, that's great...
> 
> I had 7 messages waiting to be read ! You were right it seems they
> originate from some program, mostly 'Debconf' and also Cron.
> But the 'mail' command is very awkward to use, so I just opened
> the /etc/var/mail in nano to read the mails, it's just one big text file
> with all the mails glued together.
> 
> Vince

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