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From: elliot@alfred.UUCP (Elliot Dierksen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Suggestions for next Elm release
Summary: why not use a mail forward??
Keywords: elm -u user, better elm/readmsg integration
Message-ID: <377@alfred.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 89 11:24:01 GMT
References: <68093@uunet.UU.NET> <27934@winchester.mips.COM>
Organization: Semi-private 3B1 - Orlando, FL
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In article <27934@winchester.mips.COM>, pmm@mips.COM (Paul M. Moriarty) writes:
> In article <68093@uunet.UU.NET> asp@uunet.UU.NET (Andrew Partan) writes:
> >How about adding a -u <user> flag to elm?  This would start up elm to
> >read the user's mailbox (assuming permissions to do so).
> >
> >I su to root all the time to read the postmaster mail and have to do a
> >	elm -f /usr/spool/mail/root
> >all of the time.  It gets to be a lot of typing.

Why don't you just have have postmasters mail forwarded to you?? You can put
Forward to user in a mail file and all that mail will get sent straight to
you. You could also (if you use smail) not have postmaster as an actual
login, just set it up as an alias for you. I have all the admin accounts on
my system forwarded to me and it is very nice. Saves me a great deal of
work!!!

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Elliot Dierksen                 UUCP: {peora,ucf-cs,uunet}!tarpit!alfred!elliot

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