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Re: [cobalt-users] How to read/delete mailboxes in the spool ?



At 07:51 PM 1/30/01 +0100, you wrote:
From: baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:33:44 -0500 (EST)
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] How to read/delete mailboxes in the spool ?
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Pro Performance as wrote:

> Raq4. How to read/delete mailboxes in the spool ?

Not sure why you would want to delete a mailbox unless the user is no
longer on the system?

? I guess we all have some intention with a question. At the moment I
want to delete a user not on the sysem any longer.

> When I FTP to the server im not able to read/delete the mailboxes in
> the spool.
> How to do that, do I need to Telnet to the server to do that ?

You wouldn't use ftp to read the mailbox...but you could download it.
the mailbox is owned by the user...so you'd need to ftp in as the
user name

On my earlier server I was able to do that with all the boxes but not
on the raq4. I guess its security issues for that. But how to do that?

I guess I'm confused...do you want to delete the mailbox, modify the
contents or simply read it?

Depend on the situation !

Depending on what you want to do, you'd have to be logged on
as user, or admin, or su to root.

Do you want to share how to do that ?


thom
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The mail spool files are text files kept in /home/spool/mail. You can telnet into the box and read them with cat/more/etc. and manipulate them with vi/pico/emacs/etc. Keep in mind that the files are owned by the user, so you need to login/su to root or login as the user.

If you have the user's password, you could just as easily read the spool from your email client. You could even use the client to delete from the server.

I don't know whether playing with spool files in a telnet session might FUBAR anything. At your own risk, mileage may vary, etc.

Peter