Newsgroups : Borland : borland.public.delphi.internet.winsock : 2006 Aug : Re: Need suggestions on creating an e-mail proxy
| Subject: | Re: Need suggestions on creating an e-mail proxy |
| Posted by: | "twistedvoid" (postmast..@twistedvoid.com) |
| Date: | 18 Aug 2006 09:22:53 |
"Francois PIETTE [ICS - MidWare]" <francois.piette@overbyte.be> wrote:
>> A number of anti-virus programs seem to create a proxy server on the
>> machine they're installed on. Any e-mail program downloading e-mail
>> recieves the e-mail after the anti-virus proxy scans it.
>>
>> Anyone have any idea how you'd go about creating a program to intercept
>> e-mail on a machine before the e-mail program gets it?
>
>Have a look at ICS website (http://www.overbyte.be), there are a number of
>proxies available. Follow "user made" link on the left and search "proxy" on
>the page. Maybe start your application with SocketSpy which is a simple
>proxy for anything.
>You get full source code. Of course it needs ICS you can download source
>code from same website, other page.
>
>Contribute to the SSL Effort. Visit http://www.overbyte.be/eng/ssl.html
>--
>francois.piette@overbyte.be
>The author for the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare
>The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS)
>http://www.overbyte.be
>
>
Thanks for the suggestion Francois, I've been using ICS for years and would love to use it for this project. However, in my last project I had to switch to Indy because of the lack of SSL in e-mail and will need that in this project as well.
I will look at those links though for ideas.
-Thanks