Re: [K12OSN] Adminstration question

[Steve Wright <paua quicksilver net nz>]

On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 21:18, Stephen Liu wrote:

> 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?

Yes.  This is easy.

In a Business, many people need to read incoming mail.  Sometimes the
mail comes in from different places, like 2 or more POP3 accounts.

I recently set up an office and we did it like this ;

There are two parts - getting the incoming mail onto your system, and
distributing it to your users.

Create a user account for each subject, like "support" "install" or
whatever you think.

Create a /home/<user>/.fetchmailrc with two entries this ;

poll "pop3.server.com" protocol pop3 username "user" password "pass"
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %s"

Insert servername, username, and password relevant to your ISP.
You may insert more 'poll' commands if you like

Now as root, start `fetchmail` in daemon mode for this user, like this ;

/bin/su <user> -c "fetchmail -d 120"

Now to allow many users inside your firewall access to this email,
simply install an IMAP server (no configuration required) and configure
IMAP clients on all the workstations that require access.

All users can read all incoming mail, and the mail stays on the server.


HTH,
Steve