Can email be shared between POP3 and shell account access?
I needed to receive a message to admin@mydomain.com. I waited and waited for it, but it never showed up in the admin mailbox on the mydomain.com machine. So I looked for the admin account in /etc/dovecot.passwd, and there it was, plain-text password and all! I set up a retrieval system for the admin POP3 account and got all the messages I was waiting for, not to mention about 20 that I wasn't, which were obviously old and discardable. This got me to thinking, is it possible to have an account accessible not just via POP3 from the ouside, but through mail/mailx on the inside, and if so, how is that set up?
On May 21, 2015, at 9:25 AM, Steve Matzura wrote:
I needed to receive a message to admin@mydomain.com. I waited and waited for it, but it never showed up in the admin mailbox on the mydomain.com machine. So I looked for the admin account in /etc/dovecot.passwd, and there it was, plain-text password and all! I set up a retrieval system for the admin POP3 account and got all the messages I was waiting for, not to mention about 20 that I wasn't, which were obviously old and discardable. This got me to thinking, is it possible to have an account accessible not just via POP3 from the ouside, but through mail/mailx on the inside, and if so, how is that set up?
If you have root or sudo then all you need is mutt.
# mutt -f /path/to/Maildir
On Thu, 21 May 2015 19:21:41 -0500, you wrote:
On May 21, 2015, at 9:25 AM, Steve Matzura wrote:
I needed to receive a message to admin@mydomain.com. I waited and waited for it, but it never showed up in the admin mailbox on the mydomain.com machine. So I looked for the admin account in /etc/dovecot.passwd, and there it was, plain-text password and all! I set up a retrieval system for the admin POP3 account and got all the messages I was waiting for, not to mention about 20 that I wasn't, which were obviously old and discardable. This got me to thinking, is it possible to have an account accessible not just via POP3 from the ouside, but through mail/mailx on the inside, and if so, how is that set up?
If you have root or sudo then all you need is mutt.
# mutt -f /path/to/Maildir
H'mm. All I need is mutt. There's a song in there somewhere. Just looked it up and will install forthwith. All of this going to further prove my depth of un-knowledge about this stuff. THANKS!
I have mutt configured to login via IMAP...
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Steve Matzura <number6@noisynotes.com> wrote:
On Thu, 21 May 2015 19:21:41 -0500, you wrote:
On May 21, 2015, at 9:25 AM, Steve Matzura wrote:
I needed to receive a message to admin@mydomain.com. I waited and waited for it, but it never showed up in the admin mailbox on the mydomain.com machine. So I looked for the admin account in /etc/dovecot.passwd, and there it was, plain-text password and all! I set up a retrieval system for the admin POP3 account and got all the messages I was waiting for, not to mention about 20 that I wasn't, which were obviously old and discardable. This got me to thinking, is it possible to have an account accessible not just via POP3 from the ouside, but through mail/mailx on the inside, and if so, how is that set up?
If you have root or sudo then all you need is mutt.
# mutt -f /path/to/Maildir
H'mm. All I need is mutt. There's a song in there somewhere. Just looked it up and will install forthwith. All of this going to further prove my depth of un-knowledge about this stuff. THANKS!
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Ajai Khattri
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Steve Matzura