From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 20 13:20:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDB6E150BD for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:20:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA10553; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:36:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:36:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jim Flowers Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: imap for root account? qpopper? In-Reply-To: <001701bf03a4$b1425ee0$abd396ce@eznet> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Jim Flowers wrote: > I'm trying to set up imap as an inetd service. How do I do this so that I > can access mail for the root account? Login fails. No problem with > non-root accounts. > > How are the pop2/pop3 servers vs the qpopper program? > It's probably a better idea to forward roots email to another user. look in /etc/aliases add a line near the top: "root: user@domain.to.forward.to" then run 'newaliases' and (probably) restart sendmail. -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message