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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Subject: Re: uucp user shell and home directory
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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
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