Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 19:12:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Subject: Re: uucp user shell and home directory Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110011910300.87441-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20011002103514.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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NO, POP and IMAP (I think) will lose all the envelope information, UUCP keeps that.. SMTP is a PUSH operation.. so for a PULL operation that can handle envelope information (e.g. BCC) you need UUCP On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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