Please don't post messages like this -- you didn't answer his question. It isn't our place to judge the subscribers. :) Have a great day, and best of luck, Gordon! Sorry I couldn't help! Dustin -----Original Message----- From: George Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 9:34 AM To: Gordon Harriott Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hore to make copies of incoming mail for a given user On 12/01 23:11, Gordon Harriott wrote: > Is there anyway to get q-mail to make a copy of mail coming into the > system for a given user, apart from making a .qmail file in the users > directory. I have a couple of students who I suspect are acting up on my > local machine. 'Acting up'? What do you mean by that? If you suspect they are trying to exploit any vulnerabilities which may exist on the system in question, then might I suggest there are more appropriate methods of detecting such activity than reading their correspondence. > They have shell accounts on the server (in order to undertake their > studies), and are cluey enough to use an ls-la now and again. Woo hoo! > Thus a .qmail file in their directory would allert them to the fact that > a copy of their mail was being taken. This would probably be the worst course of action you could take, likely aggravating enough for them to _really_ cause you bother. :-/ But then, if you are the kind of sysadmin that would go intercepting people's email, perhaps they are after you already. best; gjvc -- [gjvc] 4.4BSD 4.ever!
