Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 13:09:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>, Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, 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.4.21.0110021306230.92100-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20011002110758.A310@blossom.cjclark.org>
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 06:18:29PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:34:17AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > > [snip] > > > > See above. fetchmail + pop works fine. I've been get all of my envelope > > > information, and there is no worries. > > > > As long as the informations are put into the mails. > > I asume your don't forget to strip these after fetching the mails? > > Strip what? The embedded information that shuold not be passed on. I.E. the delivery addresses. (these are not the same as the To: lines) > > > If you do not you distribute those even if not wished by the sender - > > e.g. in an bcc case. > > Any special processing of 'BCC' takes place at the sender's end. There > is nothing special a receiver needs to (or could ever be trusted to) > do. this is not true at all. BCC requires that all intemediate stages have separate handling of the header, and the address list. > > > pop/fetchmail is an ugly hack in my eyes because it tries to do > > something with an protocoll it isn't designed for and it has many > > pitfalls. > > Uhh, grabbing email from a remote mailspool _is_ exactly what > POP3/fetchmail is meant to do. Or is there something else here that > someone is trying to do? No, Pop is for grabbing mail from a MAILBOX. Mailboxes strip off and delete delivery address information. > > But how does any of this relate to -CURRENT? uucp is still there for > anyone who wants it in the ports. If your ISP does not support uucp > and you want to use it to grab email, complain to your ISP, not > -current. The question was "Is there something that people want uucp for?" > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu > > 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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