Once upon a midnight dreary, Mike Holling had spoken clearly:
>> >From what I understand, her son is rather good with computers, so anything
>> she does to her local machine (she's not a whiz-kid), he's good enough to
>> undo, so this really needs to be a server-side solution.
>
>Wouldn't he be able to find an open SMTP relay and avoid yours entirely,
>then?
Here's the deal:
The kid isn't a "super-hacker" or anything, but has some experience with
the internet from school, so (AFAIK) he's not relaying or anything, and
wouldn't know how... he's just a "Windoze kinda guy" it seems.
However, his mother *did* trust him initially, and she has since found
evidence that he's not been a perfect gentleman on the Internet, so she
would like to see what's going in and out of his mailbox.
I'm no dummy to .qmail files and whatnot, so the *in* really isn't a
problem for me, but I really didn't want to have to log *everything* and
then throw 99% of it away... besides, as I'm much more comfy with Perl than
C, if I had a proggie to decide what to keep & what to toss on the fly,
sparking up Perl every email in or out would seriously tax this Puntium 133
w/40Meg RAM which is our current mailserver. (Erm, yes... my *home* box is
a dual PII-350 w/256Meg RAM, but that's what it *takes* to read email with
WinNT... ;-)
Maybe I'll recompile qmail on our Web server, as it gets *very* little use,
and see if I can create a filter in C... but as I'm by no means an expert
there, it's doubtful anything could be sparked up in the next few days...
Well, I guess I'll have to tell the lady that the quickie answer is only
one way.
Thanks all, and if anyone has other ideas I'll be happy to hear 'em.
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
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