Re: [Hampshire] Local mail

The server is Debian and the Desktop is Ubuntu, so I'll check for Exim
and Postfix.

Thanks,
Leo

Andy Random wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Leo wrote:
>
>> The second is: is it possible to get my server on my home network to
>> send its local mail to my desktop. Again, so I don't have to remember to
>> check it?
>
> Forwarding email from things like root accounts is pretty much the
> standard way of handling this in my experience.
>
> You don't say which distro you are using and exactly how to do this will
> depend on the distro (or more exactly the MTA - mail transfer agent - you
> are using, but I'm guessing you will be using the distros default MTA).
>
> If it's Debian you most likely have Exim, for Red Hat/Fedora based
> distros it will probably be sendmail and for Ubuntu I think it's Postfix.
>
> Let us know which distro/MTA and we can point you in the right direction.
>
>

>    Andy

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