Re: [K12OSN] Adminstration question

[jamie <jamie staff newberg k12 or us>]

Try webmin 

Www.webmin.com

You can look at and edit all your users mail boxes form a friendly web
interface. 

- Jamie

On 4/29/03 10:19 AM, "Stephen Liu" <satimis icare com hk> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
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