From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 1 18: 8:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE59337B416 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 18:05:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA10036; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 10:35:14 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200110011826.f91IQk8f015078@atg.aciworldwide.com> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 10:35:14 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Lyndon Nerenberg Subject: Re: uucp user shell and home directory Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Garrett Wollman Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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