RE: [cobalt-users] Reading Emails

[Way to the Web Sales <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fathi,

You could just cat/tail/more/less his mailbox in /home/spool/mail as all the
email is store in ASCII format. You'll need to su to root to do this.

Regards,
Jonathan Michaelson

Way to the Web Ltd
Web Hosting, E-Commerce and CGI Scripting
http://www.waytotheweb.com
Phone:  +44 (0)118 969 4671
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Fathi Said
> Sent: Saturday, 15 April 2000 23:05
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] Reading Emails
> 
> 
> Hello
> 
> We have a client who is possibly doing illegal activity. For 
> checking this,
> we have to read his emails and forward a copy to the police 
> department --
> but we want to do this without notifying him.
> 
> As a standard policy, our clients don't have telnet access, 
> and also I don't
> want them to have it. Only the server administrator can 
> telnet into the
> server -- nobody else.
> 
> Is there anyway that when I'm logged in as root / admin I 
> could read this
> clients emails?
> For reading admin email I was always using Pine and it worked great.
> 
> Is there a way how I could use Pine to read the other user's 
> mail? Or is
> there any other program?
> 
> Thanks,
> Fathi
> 
> 
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