The AppleShare IP (ASIP) 6.0 Mail Server's Advanced Settings lets you turn on access to the IMAP Administrator Access port (port 626). Mail administrators can remotely access the mail server at this port, view outgoing mail waiting to be delivered to other SMTP hosts, and view mail in users' mailboxes. The messages can be read, forwarded, and deleted. This is a very powerful feature that is useful in troubleshooting and mail server management; care should be taken to restrict this access to only trusted administrators.
To use the IMAP Administrator's Access Port, you'll need to do the following:
1. Turn on access to the IMAP Admin Access port in the Advanced Settings of the Mail Server Admin program.
2. On the Server, set up a user with which to access the port. The user called "Mail Administrator" (internet alias: Postmaster) could be used for this purpose, but any account that meets the following three criteria could be used: The user must: 1) have privileges to log into the file server, 2) be authorized to administer the file server, and 3) have mail enabled (IMAP).
3. To access the IMAP Admin Access port, you must use an IMAP client that supports nested folders and allows you to change the default port for IMAP connections. (Microsoft Outlook Express is an example of software that supports these features.) Set up an account for the Postmaster, entering the information for the server (as you would for any user account) but change the port to 626 (in Outlook Express, this option is under the "Advanced" button when creating the account in Preferences).
4. Log in from the IMAP client using the Postmaster account.