Re: Writing A Remailer

["Z.B." <zachb@netcom.com>]

> > Hi all. I want to try to write a re-mailer that will run on my ISP's UNIX
> > shell account. I am familiar with Windows socket programming (C/C++) but
> > have never done anything in the UNIX environment.
> 
> One thing to note, UNIX privilages, you would want to run your 
> remailer as a deamon, a constantly running program(similar to a  DOS TSR 
> or NT Service). I am not sure if your ISP gives you enough access to 
> run deamons.
> 
> Good Luck
> Michael Peponis
>
I think you would also be able to use Procmail and Formail (two UNIX mail 
processing programs) to set up a quick and dirty remailer.  

Procmail could be set to look at the headers of a message for something 
like a header of "Remail-To:", or [REMAIL] in the Subject: header.  If it 
finds this, it would use Formail to replace the headers with generic 
information, put the specified address into the To: field, and send the 
message on its way.  I don't really know if you'd be able to set this up 
for chaining remailers or not though.



Zach Babayco 

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