Re: Accessing root mail messages from another LAN host via IMAP

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From: Byung-Hee HWANG <soyeomul_at_doraji.xyz>
Date: Sun, 08 May 2022 06:25:15 UTC

Hellow David,

David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> writes:

> freebsd-questions:
>
> I have a SOHO network with a FreeBSD computer:
>
> 2022-05-07 22:28:10 toor@f3 ~
> # freebsd-version ; uname -a
> 12.3-RELEASE-p5
> FreeBSD f3.tracy.holgerdanske.com 12.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD
> 12.3-RELEASE-p5 GENERIC  amd64
>
>
> I would like to read mail for the root account on the above computer
> by using an e-mail client, IMAP, and TLS (Thunderbird) on another LAN
> computer.
>
>
> How do I accomplish this goal?  Are there any tutorials available on
> the WWW?

How about ~/.forward ?

#+begin_src text (example so plz ignore...)
root@penguin:~# cat ~/.forward
soyeomul+postmaster@gmail.com
root@penguin:~# 
#+end_src

Then you do connect to imap.gmail.com (IMAP).

> TIA,
>
> David

Sincerely, Gnus fan Byung-Hee

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