Hi Kenneth, Thanks for your advice. I am running Ximian Evolution or I can use Mozilla Mail B.Regards Stephen On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 16:44, Kenneth Goodwin wrote: > 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 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
