How do I get my system emails?

[Robert Slade]

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 17:54 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> I'm running Evolution as my mail client and, thus, connecting to the
> POP/SMTP/etc. servers directly.  I'd like to get the emails that are
> being delivered to me, however, as every time I open a terminal I'm
> being told I have mail.
> 
> How do I gather locally-transmitted email in Evolution?
> --
> Michael T. Richter
> Email: ttmrichter at gmail.com, mtr1966 at hotpop.com
> MSN: ttmrichter at hotmail.com, mtr1966 at hotmail.com; YIM:
> michael_richter_1966; AIM: YanJiahua1966; ICQ: 241960658; Jabber:
> mtr1966 at jabber.cn

Michael,

Setup another account in Evolution, which points to local delivery
rather than your server.

You can also set the root account to point to another address
in /etc/aliases which points to a real mail address. You will need to
run newaliases to update the db afterwards.

Rob