From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 11 16: 4:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F261814F79 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 16:04:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA23920; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 16:04:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 16:04:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Christopher J. Michaels" Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Retrieving mail for root? In-Reply-To: <000901beb424$33924980$0200000a@shithead.weeble.dyndns.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Christopher J. Michaels wrote: > I know that this is probably intrinsically unsafe, but this is just on > my local network, and I would like to know if it is possible to use an > IMAP client to read root's e-mail? Technically it should be possible. Root's mailspool is just like anyone else's. > I realize I could have it re-directed to another user for this > purpose, if I so choose, I would actually know if there is any way to > configure anything for imapd (I'm using the imap-uw port). Or, if > not, is there a configurable imapd that has this option? I don't know if imap-uw has an explicit config option to enable/disable root access. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message