[wplug] Children's email account?

[Jeremey Wise]

I would have suggested PoPing the mail off the server and then if it
passes, send it back to her account. If it was IMAP,  use a filter to
move the mail into a local folder/ mail store, check it.. then 'move' it
back into her 'inbox'

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 09:56 -0700, terry mcintyre wrote: 

> 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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