Re: [K12OSN] Adminstration question

[Stephen Liu <satimis icare com hk>]

Hi Jim, Jeff and others,

Thanks for your response.

I expect to receive/read and send emails only as USER not as ROOT.  

In some case while I am doing administration job as ROOT I need to refer
to document in the USER's incoming/outgoing emails.  Therefore the
solution which I am looking is the email software such as Ximian
Evolution/KMail can browse USER's email account reading his email boxes,
incoming/outgoing.  Now I can't  As ROOT the USER's email boxes don't
show up in the email software.

B.Regards
Stephen

On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 18:42, Jim Wildman wrote:
> If you've already read the mail, then it is probably in ~/mail or ~/Mail
> in a mail box.  If you have permission, you can look at it.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE                                jim rossberry com
> http://www.rossberry.com
> 
> On 29 Apr 2003, Stephen Liu wrote:
> 
> > Hi Steve,
> > 
> > Thanks for your advice.  Sorry for not making it clear in my previous
> > posting.  I am the administrator having 2 email accounts as users in the
> > same machine excluding the administrator's account, i.e. altogether
> > having 3 email accounts for different trade.
> > 
> > The problem is when I login as administrator and have to referring to a
> > particular email already downloaded in an user account I have to
> > re-login as user to get that email.  Is there a solution avoiding
> > switching re-login problem so that I can get the download email in
> > user's account while I login as administrator?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > B.Regards
> > Stephen
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 13:07, Steve Wright wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 12:40:42PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> > > > Hi all folks,
> > > > 
> > > > RH 8.0
> > > > KDE desktop
> > > > Ximian Evolution (or any email software)
> > > > 
> > > > Can an Administrator view the incoming/outgoing mail box of all users or
> > > > a selected user without login to their/his page
> > > 
> > > Yes.
> > > 
> > > All incoming mail is stored in /var/spool/mail/<username>
> > > 
> > > As root, you may browse, search, or remove at will.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > regards,
> > > Steve