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4.2 - User Profile
The POSTMASTER can perform all of the activities of an authenticated user, actvities on behalf of other users (impersonation), plus some additional Mail system maintenance orientated functions. All pages contain a large warning that POSTMASTER privileges are active for accounts so configured.
As with standard, authenticated user access supplying just a tilde will
list the corresponding username's mail. The POSTMASTER can also supply any
other username and fully access that account's mail.
http://server.host.name/yahmail/~username
http://server.host.name/cgi-bin/yahmail/~username
http://server.host.name/htbin/yahmail/~username
As with standard access folder and file names may be used in the path.
http://server.host.name/yahmail/~username/MAIL/
http://server.host.name/yahmail/~username/1997/other_folder/
4.1 - Mail Create
Reading mail as a POSTMASTER confers no special capabilities (apart from
access to another's mail). When creating and sending a message however, a
POSTMASTER can modify the sender's details at will. This means the message can
appear to have originated from any source at all! Use with discretion!!
See comments in 7.8 - Security.
4.2 - User Profile
As for other authenticated usernames the POSTMASTER can view and modify profile details as desired. In addition, a profile entry may be deleted using a button that is presented only to the POSTMASTER on the user profile modification page.
The POSTMASTER may also request a page listing all profile entries. This
allows all mail profiles to be reviewed and conveniently deleted if required.
Useful for cleaning up those loose ends that accumulate in mail systems! The
profile listing is accessed by specifying a wildcard asterisk instead of a
username.
http://server.host.name/yahmail/~*
Listing subsets of the profile entries is possible using the asterisk and
percentage wildcards (remember the percentage will need to be URL-encoded as
"%25"). The following examples list all entries beginning with
"d" and all entries with any single character followed by "an"
then any other characters.
http://server.host.name/yahmail/~d*
http://server.host.name/yahmail/~%25an*
If a specified username does not exist, for a POSTMASTER, the error report contains a dialog allowing the creation of a profile entry. The purpose of this facility is to provide a convenient method for creating a mail address that forwards to an actual mail system user. For this reason the dialog requires a forwarding destination to be specified.