[wplug] Children's email account?

[terry mcintyre]

mmm, here's a sketch of how one might approach it - but there's a fair bit of work involved as an exercise, be warned. 

A) set up fetchmail to grab the mail
B) send it to an account to which you have access
C) set up some sort of forwarder on your favorite mail-reader which upon your command deposits mail into your daughter's local account

That said - you do know that any child competent enough to use a www browser ( which is just about 99%) can access any of a zillion web-based email providers and bypass your snooping, right?

 Terry McIntyre

UNIX for hire
software development / systems administration / security 
terrymcintyre at yahoo.com

----- Original Message ----
From: Larry Daberko <larry at daberko.com>
To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 9:35:21 AM
Subject: [wplug] Children's email account?

Hi,
    I've got a daugter that wants an email address and I'm trying to come 
up with a way to let her have it, but monitor the content before she can 
see it.  I'm just concerned about spam and unknown senders.

    I'd like to know if there's a way I can approve any emails prior to her 
opening them (queueing?).  Whitelisting from specific senders, but still 
getting a copy, is good.

    I would probably be using Thunderbird on Ubuntu as the client, and the 
server end is being handled by a webhosting service with standard 
pop/imap/smtp.

LBD
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