You might consider changing from POP to IMAP. We use IMAP on our servers at work and I often leave Outlook Express running at work and come home and get my email all night long.
I haven't run into any problems. It's worked quite well. As a matter of fact I'm at home now and my email is running at work as well. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Reuben D. Budiardja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 9:40 AM Subject: Re: Disallowing remote e-mail checking > On Tuesday 08 July 2003 11:30 am, Richard Crawford wrote: > > Here's the deal. > > > > My wife and I have an RH8.0 server at home which is used primarily for > > e-mail (so far). We have it set up so that when we're at home we check > > our e-mail on the server with Outlook (her) or Evolution (me). > > > > Every now and then one of us forgets to turn off our e-mail program when > > we go off to work, meaning we can't check it remotely with Squirrelmail > > when we're on the road (since the e-mail clients pull the mail off the > > server before we can see it in SM). Not a problem for me, since I can SSH > > to my own computer and shutdown Evolution from the command line and use > > Mutt to check anything important I might have missed. But since my wife > > uses Windoze we can't ssh into her machine to shut off Outlook. > > > > So I'm trying to figure out how I can set things up so that my wife can > > check her mail with SM when she forgets to turn off Outlook. > > > > One thought I had was SSH'ing into the mail server and fixing the hosts > > table to disallow access from her computer, so that when Outlook tries to > > access the mail server it gets an error. How, exactly, would I do that? > > And what are some other options? > > I think you can do this by adding or removing the line in /etc/hosts.deny or > /etc/hosts.allow correspondingly. > > For example: > Assuming your hosts.deny and hosts.allow is empty. Then if you want the POP > connection to fail from a specific IP, add this line to /etc/hosts.deny: > > POP3: wife.IP.address > > To make it work again, comment out that lain. > > You can do it the other way around of course if you have ALL:ALL in > hosts.deny. Put the IP address of your and wife's machine in hosts.allow to > allow connection, comment it otherwise. > > You can either do it manually using SSH, or probably create web-base app to do > it. I don't know if tool like Webmin can do that (never used it). But it > would be cool (and easier) to have a web interface to do this, like, just > login to a page, click a button to disallow POP connection from your / wife's > home machine. > > hope that helps. > RDB > > -- > Reuben D. Budiardja > Department of Physics and Astronomy > The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN > ------------------------------------------------- > /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML > \ / email and proprietary format > X attachments. > / \ > ------------------------------------------------- > Have you been used by Microsoft today? > Choose your life. Choose freedom. > Choose LINUX. > ------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
