From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 2 13:22:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08CE837B401 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 13:22:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA21481; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:22:31 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23192; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:22:31 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15290.8711.449917.768672@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:22:31 -0600 To: Julian Elischer Cc: Nate Williams , "Daniel O'Connor" , Lyndon Nerenberg , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: uucp user shell and home directory In-Reply-To: References: <15290.5260.610951.681033@nomad.yogotech.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.95 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) 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 > > 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