Marc Perkel wrote:

This should be easy but can someone tell me how to do this. I want to set up a master password to read anyone's email account for tech support reasons. How would you do that?

I generally do not use IMAP for this unless I'm specifically trying to troubleshoot an IMAP problem, and in those cases I might change the user's password temporarily.

The GNU Midnight Commander is an excellent integrated file manager and viewer. That's what I use.

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