Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:22:31 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: 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: <15290.8711.449917.768672@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110021415090.92100-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> References: <15290.5260.610951.681033@nomad.yogotech.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110021415090.92100-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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> > POP3 is a mail retriever, designed to retrieve mail for a single user. > > It preserves all of the necessary information that a 'receiver' needs. > > > > Now, if you're doing something that POP3 was never intended to do (ie; > > handle multiple users with a single mailbox), then we're talking > > something completely different. This isn't something POP3 was designed > > to do. > > exactly my point.. > fetchmail/pop does not do what uucp does... (pull mail between hops on > the mail delivery path). POP3 pulls mail fine, as long as the mail is for a single user. > > The problem isn't a fetchmail/POP3 problem. It's trying to stuff > > multiple users into a single account. UUCP doesn't 'solve' this problem > > anymore, since you still need the ability to have multiple 'user' > > accounts at the ISP, even with UUCP. > > No, uucp dosn't require this.. it will just pass on the envelope > information withuot trying to interpret it.. > i.e. it does this correctly (assuming you set it up correctly) It requires that you setup a new domain, which POP3 does not. A new domain is only 'useful' if you have multiple user accounts, otherwise it's un-necessary. (Although, some people like to have their own domain, this can be done using POP3 fine if the domain has only one user account). Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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