preview mails in mailqueue as html mails with images and attachments

[johannes]

I guess the answer is no, but i ask it nonetheless. Is there an easy way to preview emails, which are still in the mailqueue, with a mailprog, lets say with roundcube?

 

[Active8]

Is there an easy way to preview emails, which are still in the mailqueue

In DA (Go to the Admin Tools section and click on Mail Queue Administration.) you can , but only mails that are sucked or frozen and if your are really fast with F5 (refresh button) you can see the mail que in action, or do you mean something else ?

 

[johannes]

do you mean something else ?

yepp, i mean to open/view normally the complete mail content, as it is in any mailclient, not only the source code.
edit: yes, only those mails they are stuck or frozen in the queue.

 

[Active8]

edit: yes, only those mails they are stuck or frozen in the queue.

That is the place then, if you go to the frozen/stucked one, just click on it and see the email content and reason

 

[Richard G]

Additionally you can also install the free Configserver (yes from csf/lfd) mailqueue, does the same as the Mail queue administration of Directadmin, but it has some extra options so I just like it a bit better and always install it on the servers.

 

[johannes]

I see the fields "E-mail Headers" which are the headers, the next is "E-mail Body Chunk" which shows the content, but only as plain text. (The last field is log). But if its an html mail wich embedded images or an attachment, they are not visible. Thous i`d like to know if I can open them somehow in a real emailclient like roundcube.
@Richard - thanks, but it doesnt seem csf mailqueue would show full html mails.

 

[Richard G]

@Richard - thanks, but it doesnt seem csf mailqueue would show full html mails.

Neither can the one from DA itself. Mail queues are just all plain text like mailboxes. It's the mail clients which parse the html codes or create the attachments from the codes.

Maybe you would like to update your thread titel to include that you want to view attachments and images because probably some custom application is needed to be able to view those.

 

[johannes]

Title updated. Yes i know its mail client who does this. And as mailclients are bounded to mail accounts, i guess its not possible to show those in the queue.

 

[ericosman]

Seeing it from a legal point; i dont think you are allowed to see your clients e-mails... depending on where you live in this world of course. But i think in America / Europe you will not be allowed to see the mails.

 

[Richard G]

you will not be allowed to see the mails.

No legally it's not allowed, strictly seen.
But it was always the case that it was possible as in spite of what all ssl/tls stuff is doing, e-mails are still send mostly via unsecure port 25 tcp connections between mailservers and at least stored unencrypted on the servers, if no encryption like PGP is used.
Since HTML mail one can not see attachments or images, however, it's a good thing that we still can see mails in queue, as mostly this is the best way to solve delivery problems or investigate which account is sending spam.