Am So, den 15.08.2004 schrieb Samuel Sieb um 5:31: > Ian Laurie wrote: > > Am I correct in thinking you cannot retrieve root's email > > remotely from a Linux box using pop3 or imap, even when APOP > > authentication is active? > > > > It would make sense I suppose, my pop3 server works for > > all users except root. > > > On most current systems, root can't even get email, it gets redirected > to another user. What mail server and pop server are you using? That is a bit curious and misleading answer. Of course root van get email. The reason why root can not contact and read mail using POP3 or IMAP is a security reason. The same reason why root is not permitted to login on FTP. Classically the authentication data is transmitted in plain text to the POP3/IMAP server and so this sensible data - we are speaking of root - can easily be sniffed. root is an administrative account and no user account, so let root only do those jobs for which he/she is there. The part of Samuel's answer is correct where he points to the fact, that you should redirect the mail for root to a normal user account by aliasing it. This is done in the /etc/aliases file, which already contains a prepared and commented entry. Set a proper alias and then run "newaliases" to make the change active. Now new mail for root is delivered to the normal user account and can be read using any POP3/IMAP client. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2smp Serendipity 05:51:18 up 10 days, 23:18, load average: 0.34, 0.47, 0.31
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