On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> There used to be a number of anonymous remailers around - and thats pretty
> much what you want.
I think that is the best way to do this. Of course, you loss the ability
to filter mail not from your site. Additionally, unless you have a lot
of traffic going to anonymous remailers from your site, you still have
the problem of logging mail from your site to the anonymous remailers
recommended in the documentation.
> Alternatively you could write a large proportion of this in a procmail
> script.
> You should be able to write all of it in a perl script - use the basic
> Mail modules which do 95% of the work.
All still have the problem with logs. Logs won't be a problem if you
have enough traffic to make it hard to work backwards.
> A better solution might well be to use a web page to submit the data.
web access logs will tell you what machine a particular request was
submitted from. If you can work from an IP address and date to
a person, you still lose anonymity. You need to have a specific webserver
set up which does not log.
Or for all of the email solutions, you need to set up an MTA which
doesn't log. That means that you have to get users to change
there SMTP out-going host. Users won't really cope with that and
if people have to ask the help desk for help in using the anonymous
system ...
-j
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