Snooping ISP admin??
Douglas R. Floyd
dfloyd at io.com
Mon Sep 23 19:56:09 PDT 1996
>
> Greetings All,
>
> Question for the group: I have encountered a situation that causes me
> to believe an ISP is snoopingthrough encrytped mail. It seems that
> PGP'd mail has aroused the curiosity of an ISP (not hooked.net).. I have
> encountered "POP3 account in use by another user" several times in the
> past few days and I am the only user... wondering if that "in use"
> messsage is the result of a clumsy sysadmin being caught with his hand
> in the cookie jar. Any thoughts from the group??? If those more
> knowledgeable than I deem these NOISE... my sincere apologies.
An admin could just copy the mail spool file to a safer place, then read
through at their leisure.
Unless its someone totally clueless (which some ISP's are), I doubt that
they are pulling off the pop3d. It could be that your mail spool file is
locked by a mail transport agent, and that is why that error message is
occuring.
Any thoughts?
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