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Zeophlite
Asked: 2013-11-04 01:28:53 +0800 CST

Reading mail from system user

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When I log into a server, I get You have mail. With alpine and sudo alpine I've deleted all my and root's emails, but there is also a file /var/spool/mail/smmsp. How can I check email from that user?

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    smmsp user/account most likely received only system notification emails. You can read such "text only emails" mailbox file in any text editor (e.g. vi).

    Create email alias to redirect future emails:

    • smmsp to root
    • root to non privileged user/account
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