"You have mail." message received.

Hi, I'm still a little new to FreeBSD and I haven't used unix shells in a while either. I'm running FreeBSD on VirtualPC 2007 and whenever I boot the virtual hard drive, I have a message stating that I have mail. How can I check the mail?

Thank you in advance.
 
UNIXgod said:
you can forward it to your outside addresses with setting up periodic.conf

No need. Just edit /etc/aliases and point root's mail to the external address.
 
SirDice said:
No need. Just edit /etc/aliases and point root's mail to the external address.

does it matter if it's /etc/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases? Would both need to be edited?
 
bojan said:
How about creating .forward on the /root/ ?

Any advantages/disadvantages .forward vs /etc/mail/aliases?

A .forward rewrites the sender address (it gets delivered and resent). Use aliases to keep the mail 'intact'.
 
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