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whar are mails in /var/spool/mail/root ?

I have learnt to read mails in /var/spool/mail/root. But I know nothing about these mails, I mean who sends these mails, what information they deliver and what do we need about these mails...blah blah blah..

Would anyone be kind enough to make me understand this?

Regards

These are mails sent by the system.
Mostly in case of problems....
Just read them to see what they mean

You can forward these mails to a user, just edit /etc/aliases

Code:

ROOT: username

and run

Code:

newaliases

/var/spool/mail/ is a common location to tore internal mails for all UNIX accounts, not only for root. You should not confuse this with e-mails sent via POP3 accounts. It is quite possible to have e-mails stored in a completely different location (usually your home directory, for example when using thunderbird as the mail client) then the system mails.

The /var location is the default location for interim files generated by the system. Besides system mails it also contains log file and other stuff.

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