Can email be shared between POP3 and shell account access?

[Ajai Khattri]

I have mutt configured to login via IMAP...

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Steve Matzura <number6 at 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 at 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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