Re: [cobalt-users] email

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Steve Churcher wrote:

> Hi
> 
> We've got a RAQ3..
> 
> I was wondering if there is an easy way to check on our users email?
> Basically Ive got a problem in that one of our clients has some mail which
> it can't seem to download.
> 
> I know how to gain access to the email directory and view it all as a
> complete file - as in pico or cat etc, but I was wondering if there is a way
> to view a particular mailbox(?if that the right term?) throught something a
> bit more user friendly like pine for example which could then enable
> deletion of individual messages for example?

The folderformat for the spool files is the same as what pine uses for
local folders, so you could copy the spool file into ~/mail and open it as
a folder in pine, if you want you could copy it back after editing, but
you
need to be carefull on that one as you can trash new mail that arrives
in between..(appending to the spool file is slightly safer, but not
completly)

(Making the assumption they aren't uing IMAP ;)

gsh