OT: Use Thunderbird to pick up ROOT Mail?

[Mike McCarty]

Jacques B. wrote:
>>I was able to get my local mail (for current user) with Evolution (not
>>sure if Thunderbird allows that as well).  You can configure it to to
>>bring in Standard Unix mbox or spool directory. However it can't bring

Dunno, but that would be nice if possible. I am not aware of any
such option with Thunderbird, and I've been through its menus.

>>root in as an unpriviledged user.  Your solutions are either to setup
>>a root cron job that runs a script that copies the root mail file to a
>>new name where a local user has priviledge to read it (I copied it
>>over and then did a send/receive and got all of root's mail).  Or you
>>could create a new group and add your unpriviledged user to it and
>>then change ownership/priviledge on the root mail file to allow that
>>group to be able to read it.  There is a potential security risk there
>>obviously granted if all you give is read access then the worse that
>>would happen is someone who compromises your user account would have
>>read access to root's mail.

Or I could .forward root's mail to my local user :-)

> Interesting follow-up. When I delete a message from within the mail
> command line command, it gets deleted from within Evolution. So
> Evolution is not bringing the messages into it, just reading the local
> mailbox on the fly so to speak.

Mike
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