Not knowing what mailer you are using, but check the MAN pages as appropriate . Most mailers have command line flags to read' from a file. for example mail -f users_mail_box_filepathname will do what you are looking for under the MAIL command. You may need to leave the messages in the inbox depending on what your needs are. Read and delete, OR read and leave for real user. > -----Original Message----- > From: psyche-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:psyche-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Stephen Liu > Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 4:30 AM > To: psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Adminstration quesiton > > > 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 > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
