IF YOU'RE a Linux user and, like yours truly, not really a professional full-time Unix/Linux sysadmin, you might also be puzzled like I was about how to set up Postfix to route local system-generated email to your email client. If you're not a Linux user, or not curious, you can stop reading here, because this article is about how to solve that problem.

System-generated email is created by applications that run at intervals triggered by cron scripts, things like logrotate, tripwire and so on. They typically log their information to /var/log/messages too, but it's easier to receive those reports via local email than search for them regularly.

Here are the steps to set up Postfix and Evolution to receive local email in the Evolution email client. Other Linux email clients can probably be set up similarly to receive local system-generated email.

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