At 12:13 PM +0200 10/13/01, Christian F Buser imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: >I know how to set up and and how to delete an account, but what can >I do when a user needs to be deleted who still has lots of messages >waiting for him?
Delete the account. SIMS will zap the mail store for you. >Of course, I could find out his password using the SIMS Account >extractor, download the messages to my own computer, and forwart >them to his new place -- but there must be a better way! Oh. You want him to get his old mail. That's harder. >In other words, how can I activate all messages of his account and >have them forwarded automatically to his new address? I have a >safeguard that no _new_ messages arrive there: I set up a router >entry with the name exactly like the account, and since the router >is looked at first, no new message makes it to the real account. > >It may be important to know that the server is not easily accessible >physically, and that no software like Timbuktu is running there, so >it should be done using the web interface. I have access to the web >server next to it using Timbuktu, and can "mount" the SIMS server's >hard disk via Appletalk, however. So if >downloading/changing/uploading of files would be a possibility as >well. You will need access to that disk. There is no way to tell SIMS to forward messages that have already been delivered to a mailbox. It's not elegant, but you CAN just take the account file from the SIMS accounts folder and attach it to a message to the new address. That file is plain text and is in the standard 'mbox' format, so many mail clients can work with it. Some (notably Eudora) should be able to read it directly as a mailbox. If the standard line-break conversion is done to it to put it on a Unix machine, nearly any Unix mail client will see it as a standard mailbox. If you really insist on transferring the messages individually, you can get that account file and rather easily split out the individual messages. If the router entry is forwarding messages properly, you should be able to drop the split-out messages individually into files in the Submitted folder, and SIMS will deliver them. The only risk there is for messages which are not addressed to the user in their headers, such as mailing list traffic. See the docs on the use of the Submitted folder for how to get around that. IMHO this is not worthwhile and is potentially a privacy invasion, but you CAN do it. -- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
