From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 2 16:35: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cicely.de (ppp85.uni-duisburg.de [134.91.19.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA93F37B406 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:34:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f92NYbk27977; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 01:34:37 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 01:34:37 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Nate Williams Cc: Julian Elischer , "Daniel O'Connor" , Lyndon Nerenberg , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: uucp user shell and home directory Message-ID: <20011003013436.A27951@cicely20.cicely.de> References: <15290.5260.610951.681033@nomad.yogotech.com> <15290.8711.449917.768672@nomad.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15290.8711.449917.768672@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 02:22:31PM -0600 X-Operating-System: NetBSD cicely20.cicely.de 1.5 sparc 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, Oct 02, 2001 at 02:22:31PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > > > 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. Yes - that's what it's designed for. POP3 isn't a MTA->MTA transport. SMTP and UUCP rmail are. > > > 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). You don't need a new domain. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message