From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 2 12:19:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4FF437B406 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 12:19:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA92666; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 13:09:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 13:09:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Bernd Walter , Nate Williams , "Daniel O'Connor" , Lyndon Nerenberg , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: uucp user shell and home directory In-Reply-To: <20011002110758.A310@blossom.cjclark.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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