Note: This article pertains to Mac OS X Server versions 1.x, which were released prior to May 2001.
To access your Mailviewer mailbox remotely, telnet to your Mac OS X Server system, log in, and use a mail program (such as "mail", "pine" or "elm") or a text file viewer (such as "more" or "less") to read the mailboxes (which are stored in the Mailboxes subdirectory; for example, your Active mailbox text is stored in Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox).
If you choose to use a Terminal mail program, make sure it has the option of exiting without updating the mailbox. Otherwise, MailViewer's table of contents will get out of synch with the messages, potentially making your mailbox unusable the next time you use it. (For this reason, you may want to use "less" to view mail remotely, although "elm" is also a safe solution if you exit using the "x" command, abandoning your changes.)