[Dovecot] access to root mail through Dovecot on VPS

[Simon Waters]

On Monday 17 Jul 2006 15:59, surabaja at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just installed dovecot and postfix on a Fedora Core VPS.
> The VPS will not allow me to ssh directly as user "root"
> i.e.: I must first login as a non-root user and then "su" into root.
> My question is: is there a way to read my root mail through
> Dovecot ? How should I setup the Thunderbird account ?

vi /etc/aliases
root: myaccount

Don't make apps become root just for root's benefit.