You might look at using ZVNC (http://home.comcast.net/~davedyer/znc/zvnc.html), an encrypted remote control program. You install the server piece on her computer at home and the viewer client on her computer at work, and she can take control of her home system from work.
Of course, you could also just set up an imap server on your home system instead of a pop system, and then you wouldn't have to worry about the client downloading your email... :) Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Reuben D. Budiardja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 11:40 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
