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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Subject: Re: uucp user shell and home directory
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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].

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