![]() All of them provide the same /usr/sbin/sendmail tool, but they're easier to configure, more secure, and just as powerful.Toronto, Canada Area Past President, PAVRO at Professional Administrators of Volunteer Resources Ontario Nonprofit Organization Management Education Nipissing University 1993 - 1996 BA, Social Work Sheridan College 1998 - 1998 Human Services Administration- Diploma Humber College 2001 - 2001 Fundamentals in Volunteer Management Experience Volunteer MBC March 2009 - Present PAVR-O Professional Administrators of Volunteer Resources - Ontario 2003 - 2011 Professional Administrators of Volunteer Resources- Ontario May 2010 - May 2011 PVAN 1999 - 2010 Canadian Cancer Society 2008 - 2009 Canadian Diabetes Association 2004 - 2008 Canadian Diabetes Association 2004 - 2008 Skills Volunteer Management, Non-profits, Community Development, Community Outreach, Public Speaking, Fundraising, Nonprofits, Social Media, Leadership, Grant Writing, Workshop Facilitation, Staff Development, Volunteer Training, Program Development, Strategic Planning, Board Development, Philanthropy, Volunteer Recruiting, Event Planning, Non-profit., Program Evaluation, Event Management, Community Engagement, Program Management, Volunteering, Social Services In fact, you shouldn't use Sendmail, but something more modern like OpenSMTPD, Postfix, or Exim4. Note that /usr/sbin/sendmail nowadays is a shared API and doesn't necessarily mean the original Sendmail MTA. The exact instructions vary depending on which MTA (if any) you have installed, whether this is a personal computer or a server, whether you have your own domain or use a and so on. ![]() You can (and should) configure your mail software – the "MTA" aka /usr/sbin/sendmail – to forward the messages to your personal mail address. Yes to both – it's generated by your system telling you something, but it's also actual email and can be handled as such. Is this even actual "mail" in the same sense as email? Or is it just my system telling me something? You should at least scan the subject headers – often people ignore the mail for months never realizing that their daily cron jobs fail. How important is it?ĭepends greatly on the contents of each message. Most often the messages contain output of cron jobs, or a system security report by logwatch, or similar junk. (See "is this real mail?" below.) What does it contain, and who/what sent it? You can try mutt or alpine you can even configure it to be sent to an outside mailbox. Usually the spool file is in a very simple mbox format, so you can open it in a text editor or pager.įor a slightly more convenient way, most distributions come with a program called mail (or Mail, mailx). ![]() (Other locations are possible – check if $MAIL is set – but by default, the system only informs you about /var(/spool)/mail.) It's likely to be in the spool file: /var/mail/$USER or /var/spool/mail/$USER are the most common locations on Linux and BSD.
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