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Asked: 2012-02-14 05:15:26 +0800 CST

Save sent mail in sent box with "mail" command

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Mails sent using the mail clients are saved, but I want also that my system saves the sent mail using cron and the "mail" command to the "sent" box. Is this possible?

I use sendmail as mail server on Linux.

As an example I use:

echo "An example" | mail -s "Read this!" root

What if I want to read the message I sent, is it saved somewhere?

Thanks,

linux email mbox

1 Answers

  1. If there is no explicit alias for root in /etc/aliases, then that mail is going to be saved to root's mail spool, accessible with the "mail" command run with no arguments. Mail for local users typically resides in /var/spool/mail/.

    These days it's more common to send root mail away from the local machines and to, say, your email provider.

    /etc/aliases:
root                 [email protected]

$ newaliases
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