Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 10:35:14 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Subject: Re: uucp user shell and home directory Message-ID: <XFMail.20011002103514.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200110011826.f91IQk8f015078@atg.aciworldwide.com>
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On 01-Oct-2001 Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > UUCP still gets used. It's one of the few sane ways to handle email in > a laptop environment when you're always connecting through different > dialups/ISPs. It has mostly fallen out of favour due to ignorance and > FUD. Which is a shame, as it can still be a useful tool in certain > situations. I think a more 'modern' solution is POP or IMAP over SSH, you can also feed SMTP over an SSH tunnel too (This is what I use). --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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