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

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Low wrote:

> The mail spool files are text files kept in /home/spool/mail.

On RaQs yes.  But someone recently wrote to this list that they're
stored in user space on the Qube.

> 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.

Safer to su to the user name if you know his/her password.  If not,
first su to root, then immediately to the username, which won't require
the user's password.  The less you actually do as root the better.

> 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.

Maybe not.  Maybe the reason you're looking at it is to find out why it
locks up your user's email program whenever s/he tries to download it
<wry grin>.

Jeff
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