Re: [cobalt-users] Maybe OT - easier way to manage mailboxes and maillog

[Rod Poplarchick <rod@xxxxxxxxxx>]

on 7/24/01 8:09 AM, Edward Bishop at eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx pecked on the
keyboard:

> Can anyone recommend commands or software to make it easier to (1) view the
> contents of a user's mailbox and read or delete messages and (2) format
> maillog to be more readable?
> 
> I'm fed up typing cat [user] and wading through seas of garbage representing
> an attached image.
> 
> I use Webmin on a Linux server and found it good but I'm reluctant to
> install it on the RaQ4 because I've heard its admin name and password are
> sent as plain text in the HTTP request. I'd really like something similar,
> just to do these two jobs, but more secure.
> 
> In passing - thanks to everyone who's replied to my posts in recent weeks,
> and who contributed to helping with the code red worm thing: I really like
> being on this list.
> 
> Eddie Bishop

why not SSH and use pine?
if you have a buch of accounts that you want to check mail on just
as ROOT

"su username"
 and it will not ask you for a pasword as long as you start as root "su -".
then pine read the mail there.

Are you reading mail that don't belong to you?