Hi Martin, Thanks for your response. I am the Administrator. It is not be a good practice to use ROOT to work including sending/receiving mails, therefore I create a USER account for myself on the OS, say, "AAA" for daily routine. Now the problem is occasionally when I do administrating work as ROOT I need to refer to data in mails (either incoming or outgoing). In such case I have to re-login as USER to read it. It is not convenient. Of course I can leave all incoming mails on ISP server but they will accumulate. OR I can save the mails as file and keep them on /tmp folder but this arrangement just increases workload. To overcome the forgoing question I am trying to find a solution which allows the Administrator to read a particular USER's mail boxes while login as ROOT. I am not considering changing the setup from time to time. Thanks B.Regards Stephen On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 08:17, Martin Stricker wrote: > Stephen Liu wrote: > > > Can an Administrator view the incoming/outgoing mail box of all users > > or a selected user without login to their/his page > > root can view any file, and a mailbox is just a file. This is necessary, > backups and other things wouldn't work otherwise. Normally admins have > neither interest nor time to read other people's mail. > > Best regards, > Martin Stricker > -- > Homepage: http://www.martin-stricker.de/ > Linux Migration Project: http://www.linux-migration.org/ > Red Hat Linux 8.0 for low memory: http://www.rule-project.org/ > Registered Linux user #210635: http://counter.li.org/ -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
