Remote access to a user's mail spool

[cape canaveral]

On 7/5/05, Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
> Matt Juszczak wrote:
> > We're an ISP, and we are currently looking for a way for our tech
> > support guys to access customer's email without having shell access to
> > the server, or knowing the customer's password.
> >
> > We'd like to install a custom webmail client on our private internal LAN
> > webserver that would only show the user's inbox and the ability to
> > delete the messages (couldn't read messages, etc.).
> 
> The notion of being able to delete messages yet not see them doesn't make much
> sense, frankly.  Are they going to just see the sender, or the subject, or do
> they just delete mail randomly?  What problem are you trying to solve?
> 
> --
> -Chuck

Most likely the problem they are trying to solve is that of Outlook
and Outlook Express choking on corrupt/damaged/unrecognized headers. 
It's a huge problem for Outlook users these days.

http://www.google.com/search?q=outlook+%2Bok+octets+follow&btnG=Search


Aaron