topic Re: mail in Operating System - HP-UX

mail

iranzo — Thu, 08 Nov 2001 09:08:38 GMT

Hello,

working on HP 9000 unix 10.2 and 11
problem with "root" mailbox
what's difference beetween mail,elm and
icon mail on CDE
should i configure something to receive
root message in only one mailbox and get all
of them with one command ?

Thanks .

Re: mail

Thierry Poels_1 — Thu, 08 Nov 2001 09:23:15 GMT

Hi,

you probably already have one mailbox (probably /var/mail/root).

sendmail, mailx, mail, elm, ... are just utilities to read your mailbox and send mails. You can even use them all together.

regards,
Thierry.

Re: mail

Joseph Chakkery — Thu, 08 Nov 2001 09:29:28 GMT

Hello,

mail,elm or mailx are commands to read or send mails. mails to root will be stored in /var/mail/root.

If u want to redirect ur root mails to ur exchange mail id then u will have to configure sendmail.

Regards
Joe.

Re: mail

Santosh Nair_1 — Thu, 08 Nov 2001 10:00:44 GMT

On HPUX mail is usually delivered to /var/spool/mail/, i.e. in the case of root, in /var/spool/mail/root. All these applications, i.e. mail, mailx, elm and dtmail are what is called MUAs, i.e. Mail User Agent...they are used to read the mail delivered to the spool directory.

Hope this helps.

-Santosh

Re: mail

Roger Baptiste — Thu, 08 Nov 2001 13:00:36 GMT

<icon mail on CDE >>

Different mail interface tools (like UPS, Fedex, mail etc;-) ) having the same source as mailbox.

<root message in only one mailbox and get all
of them with one command ? >>

There is only one mailbox per user in the system. So, you dont need to configure anything. The mailbox is located in /var/spool/mail/ .

-raj