Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:36:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Jim Flowers <jflowers@ezo.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: imap for root account? qpopper? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909201334470.6368-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <001701bf03a4$b1425ee0$abd396ce@eznet>
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On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Jim Flowers wrote: > I'm trying to set up imap as an inetd service. How do I do this so that I > can access mail for the root account? Login fails. No problem with > non-root accounts. > > How are the pop2/pop3 servers vs the qpopper program? > It's probably a better idea to forward roots email to another user. look in /etc/aliases add a line near the top: "root: user@domain.to.forward.to" then run 'newaliases' and (probably) restart sendmail. -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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