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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    Re: [SLE] Good Mail Reader that can be launched from xterm???
From:       Ain Vagula <ain () riiska ! ee>
Date:       2004-05-05 7:36:42
Message-ID: 4098998A.1040907 () riiska ! ee
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John N. Alegre wrote:

>Amish,
>
>On 05-May-04 Amish Munshi wrote:
>  
>
>>    A simple shell script should be able to do your job, mutt is the my
>>    favourite for reading mails, the skeleton of the script is as
>>    follows.
>>
>>su user1 -c "mutt"
>>su user1 -c "mutt"
>>
>>    
>>
>mutt is not at all what I have in mind!
>
>I know you can su to a different user and use a text based mail reader like
>mutt or pine from within the xterm.  I am looking for a full GUI mail reader
>that can be launched from the command line of xterm.  Something that has the
>look and functionality of Netscape mail.  I know there is Kmial but how can
>that be launched as a su'ed user?
>
>To be more clear, if I have users root, joe, frank and bill.  I log in as bill,
>su to root.  Now su to joe and frank does not require a password.  So I want to
>su to joe or frank and launch the equivalent of Netscape Mail / Kmail or
>whatever on bills desktop but as joe or frank.
>
>I used to do this with XFmail in Red Hat 6.0 but I am looking for even more GUI
>functionality that even XFmail.
>  
>
try:


kdesu -u (joe_or_frank) kmail (or whatever)


ain


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