Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:29:44 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> Cc: "Daan Vreeken \[PA4DAN\]" <Danovitsch@vitsch.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qpopper for root Message-ID: <44803D48.4040701@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <44802415.2030907@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> References: <44800F1D.50100@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <44801448.50009@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <200606021328.31894.Danovitsch@vitsch.net> <44802415.2030907@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk>
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Robin Becker wrote: > Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: >> Simply create a "normal" user and create a mail alias address so that >> all mail to root gets forwarded to the normal user. Then setup your >> mail client to login to pop3 using the username & passwd of the normal >> user. >> >> Setting up an alias is easy. Simply add the following line to >> /etc/aliases to forward root's email to normal_user : >> root: normal_user >> > > that's a good answer and will allow my despamming stuff to work on it. I > was hoping to be able to clear the root mailbox as well. Is there an > easy way to do that? cat /dev/null > /var/mail/root would do the trick ;-) (#include disclaimer.h) More useful might be: cp /var/mail/me /var/mail/me.bak mv /var/mail/root /var/mail/me (download root mail via POP or whatever) mv /var/mail/me.bak /var/mail/me YMMV, of course. Kevin Kinsey -- Scenary is here, wish you were beautiful.
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