[Wolves] I been asked a wierd question.

[Kevanf1]

On 24/05/06, David Morley <davmor2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you rout all emails from a network through one machine in order to
> be able to view whats going on.  I said yes set up a mail server but
> he wants to be able to veiw the mails in something like outlook
> express.  Strictly monitoring purposes not content.  He wants to be
> able to view addresses etc I said just view the log files or setup a
> cron job to print the log files .
>
> Am I right and would the log files be viewable by something like
> outlook?  (why outlook I have no idea I have a genuine feeling that he
> is just linking anything to do with email to outlook even a log file)
> --

I doubt Outlook or Outlook Express would be able to read log files.
If that's all he wants to do then it would be a very long winded
process too.  OE or O would open the mail....each and every one.

I'd have thought it needed a dedicated mail server to do the job he wants.

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