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

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