Win95 lockdown software and Netscape Mail

[Bin Zhang]

Just replace the "mailto:" tag with a pointer to a CGI mail form, and
disable mail in Netscape.  Take a look at our library's home page at:
http://library.kcc.hawaii.edu/ for examples.

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>>>>> "David" == David Risner <drisner at swlaw.edu> writes:

    David> On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Bob Jones wrote:
    >>  Does anyone know if any of the Win95 lockdown security
    >> software products has the capability to suppress commands
    >> controlling incoming mail while still enabling the capability
    >> to send email from the Netscape browser?  My objective is to
    >> permit students access to send mail to their professors (from
    >> the class web pages) while trying to discourage others from
    >> using the Library's browser for accessing their campus email.
    >> (I know, they can still do it from HotMail, etc.) I am
    >> currently using router blocks from certain IP address ranges to
    >> the campus mail server, but I am being "encouraged" by faculty
    >> to permit sending email.  Thanks.

    David> Assuming you have a Unix mail server, what about using TCP
    David> Wrappers, or equivalent, to block access to the POP3 port
    David> from those machines?  You could keep the SMTP port
    David> available so outgoing mail still works.

    David> Or, if you have more than one Unix machine, you could set
    David> up the sendmail on another machine to just forward messages
    David> on to the mail server.  You would set the outgoing (SMTP)
    David> mail server on the Win95 machines to point to this second
    David> Unix machine and then block access to the actual mail
    David> server using your favorite scheme.

    David> Another solution would be to edit the Netscape.exe file to
    David> not allow the changing of the POP3 login name and/or the
    David> name of the Incoming (POP3) server. Just make sure that the
    David> registry entry where Netscape stores the POP3 login name
    David> does not contain a valid login name for the mail server
    David> and/or the entry for the incoming server is
    David> invalid. (Disclaimer -- you are supposed to get permission
    David> from Netscape before embarking on such a course).

    David> --- David G. Risner -- Network Systems Administrator
    David> Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles, CA
    David> Business: drisner at swlaw.edu Personal: dgrisner at netcom.com
    David> Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Sands/8326/