Re: [webmin-l] ReadMail -- other "mailboxes"

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 23/Jun/2006 17:31 Marcos Rubinstein wrote ..
> I have a server (actualy is a virtual server, but has its own webmin) 
> where I backup all mail from a client... The mail is saved for a very long
> time, and to avoid huge mailbox files, once a week I run this script:
> 
> ########################################################################
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> date=`date +%Y%m%d`
> 
> mkdir /var/spool/mail$date
> mv /var/spool/mail/* /var/spool/mail$date/
> 
> ########################################################################
> 
> (a companion script gzip all files inside any directory > than 2 month)
> 
> My problem:
> 
> Once in an associate of my client tells me that s/he lost a piece of mail,
> or if I can check if fo...@ba... sent a mail 2 weeks ago...
> 
> It would be convinient if I could access those 
> /var/spool/mail$date/usermailbox from webmin... but I can not...
> 
> (I know... a possible solution would be to have "folders" --actually are
> files, inside each users $HOME/mail in the form of $HOME/mail/mbox$date
> , 
> but I would rather keep all mail togheter!!!)
> 
> any way to do it via webmin?

Have you tried using the Read User Mail module's feature for accessing
any file or directory as a mail folder? Down the bottom of the main page
is a 'Read Mail in File' field into which you can enter the path to any
mbox-format file or Maildir directory to view its contents.

 - Jamie