From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 26 09:28:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA03627 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:28:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mulligatwani.msrl.com (mulligatwani.msrl.com [206.246.79.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA03603 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:28:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shields@msrl.com) Received: (qmail 10514 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Jan 1999 17:27:53 -0000 From: shields@msrl.com (Michael Shields) Organization: Mad Science Research Labs Message-Id: <87u2xe9c81.fsf@mulligatwani.msrl.com> Mail-Copies-To: never To: andrew@squiz.co.nz Cc: "Joseph M. Scott" , Leif Neland , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dummy-pop3 server References: Date: 26 Jan 1999 17:27:53 +0000 In-Reply-To: Andrew McNaughton's message of "Wed, 27 Jan 1999 01:35:46 +1300 (NZDT)" Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article , Andrew McNaughton wrote: > You could put the message into an undeletable mail message. I tried > mucking around with permissions and symbolic links in /var/mail but my pop > server (cucipop) won't open the mailbox unless it's writable. It wouldn't > be all that big a job to hack a clearly written pop server into always > using the same mailbox regardless of what username and password were > presented, and ignoring 'dele' commands. I've done that. You end up with lots of complaints: I'VE ALREADY GOTTEN THIS MESSAGE TWENTY TIMES!!!!1!!1 STOP SENDING ME THIS MESSAGE!!!!!1!!! You ca'n't win. -- Shields. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message