From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 6 21:35:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA19309 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 21:35:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA19297 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 21:35:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from perki0.connect.com.au (perki0.connect.com.au [192.189.54.85]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id PAA26636 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 15:21:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nemeton.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by perki0.connect.com.au with UUCP id IAA12354 (8.8.5/IDA-1.6); Mon, 7 Apr 1997 08:21:01 +1000 (EST) Received: from topaz.nemeton.com.au (topaz.nemeton.com.au [203.8.3.18]) by nemeton.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA10778; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 08:06:27 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost.nemeton.com.au (localhost.nemeton.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by topaz.nemeton.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA00223; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 08:07:11 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199704062207.IAA00223@topaz.nemeton.com.au> To: Ollivier Robert cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail in 2.2 In-reply-to: <19970406161441.43355@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 08:07:11 +1000 From: Giles Lean Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 6 Apr 1997 16:14:41 +0200 Ollivier Robert wrote: > The problem is not per se the transport mechanism (you can put the mail > thru uux so UUCP is supported) but in the fact that if you try to manage a > mailing-list with it thru UUCP, you'll end up sending as many individual > messages as you have subscribers (i.e. multiply by N your phone bill). Qmail still has this feature, and looks likely to keep it. I expect teaching your mailing list program to hand mail off directly to uux would work though. Giles (maybe there are no more security holes in sendmail :-)