Re: mailutil

If you need to use mailutil to operate on user accounts from the root 
account, then you can do this:

su - $user --shell=/bin/bash -c /usr/bin/mailutil ...

   This is also useful for accessing users' mail on the mail server with 
"alpine":

su - $user --shell=/bin/bash -c /usr/bin/alpine

(Useful because alpine is the only non-gui client that can operate 
locally on "MIX" formated mail folders)

Richard Ketcham



On 2012-06-01 12:58, Oscar del Rio wrote:
> On 06/ 1/12 09:13 AM, Jim McKinney wrote:
>> 1) Is there a way to have mailutil look in an alternate location rather
>> than my home directory?  I've looked at the man page and don't see any
>> way to override this using either a flag or environment variable.
>
> Try using double slash.  For example,
>
> % mailutil copy -kw //tmp/test.mbox 
> "{server:143/imap/novalidate-cert/notls/user=username}testmailbox"
>
> to transfer /tmp/test.mbox file to users IMAP testmailbox.
>
> % mailutil copy -kw //tmp/test.mbox 
> "{server:143/imap/novalidate-cert/notls/user=username}//spool/username/testmailbox"
>
> might work if mailboxes are not on the user's home dir.
>
> % mailutil copy -kw //tmp/test.mbox 
> "{server:143/imap/novalidate-cert/notls/user=username}#driver.mix/testmailbox"
>
> to specify a mailbox format...
>
>
>> Finally, is there a reference with examples of the various driver
>> options, etc beyond the man page?
>
> The mailing list archives, I supposed.  Mark provided great support 
> and gave lots of advice on the list.
>
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