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Originally Posted by Nick
Where would it be located (certainly not in Mail.app or Entourage)?
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Note: I will be describing what I see on my Tiger machine. If you have Leopard some details might be different.
System-based email is in the file
/var/mail/username (where
username is your user's "short user name").
Mail is really geared towards Internet email, so it does not offer a direct way to check this mailbox. You can, however, import this system email into
Mail. Choose
File >
Import Mailboxes…; select
Other (the key phrase here is "mbox file"); click
Continue; press ⌘⇧G (Command-Shift-G); type
/var; click
Go; select
mail; click
Choose; make sure your short user name is checked in the
Items to import list; click
Continue; read the displayed info about where to find the imported messages; click
Done.
Entourage should also be able to do the job. The key words you want to look for are import and mbox. Then just point it to your
/var/mail/username file.