Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 00:23:09 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: 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: <20011003002309.A19243@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20011002103514.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:35:14AM %2B0930 References: <200110011826.f91IQk8f015078@atg.aciworldwide.com> <XFMail.20011002103514.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:35:14AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > UUCP still gets used. It's one of the few sane ways to handle email in > > a laptop environment when you're always connecting through different > > dialups/ISPs. It has mostly fallen out of favour due to ignorance and > > FUD. Which is a shame, as it can still be a useful tool in certain > > situations. > > I think a more 'modern' solution is POP or IMAP over SSH, you can also feed > SMTP over an SSH tunnel too (This is what I use). UUCP >> POP | IMAP when one has multiple accounts on the "local" box one wants to receive email from [w/o having multiple accounts on the mail relay]. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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