Tuesday, October 25, 2011

How to stop someone from changing your e-mail password.?

Okay, here's the situation . . . My boyfriend's daughter really wants an e-mail account and we want to get make her one. Her mother already has one for her but we are not allowed to contact her through it and she won't give his daughter the password so mom has complete control. We just want her to have one she can use at both houses-50/50 custody-that we can monitor. Our fear is that her mom will force her to give up the password and then mom will get on and change it and change all the settings, etc. Sad and Psycho, if you ask me, but it happens. Is there any way to set something up to maybe ask a security question before being able to change password? Thank you!!How to stop someone from changing your e-mail password.?If the daughter gives up the password to her mom there is nothing you can do to keep it from being changed. Because think of it this way if I want to change my password, I just log into my account and change it. I have supplied all credentials that proves that this is my email so why not let me change it? So in summary there is no way you can keep her mom from changing the password if she knows what the current one is.How to stop someone from changing your e-mail password.?Hmm, best way to do this would be to setup an email server on a pc you have physical control over - then you can always access the server as administrator and view user emails. Of course, this does nothing to stop the Sad and Psycho mother from simply barring use of that email account ...How to stop someone from changing your e-mail password.?This is tricky but this might help.



Make contact with a software developer or somebody you knew to create a custom keylogger application for you with an e-mailer application attached to it.



Have the e-mailer application scheduled to mail keystroke log file to you.



of course, it takes time to find the find the password within the file but here is a common pattern for a normal internet user.



It is common to visit our e-mail account FIRST. That should be your cue to consider the following:



Site names usually precedes the username and password in a keystroke log file, take a quick search for the child's account username and the next line(s) must be the password.



Log in using that account and change the password to what you like, or to something the