Re: BSMTP on debian.net
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Steve Robbins wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:25:22AM -0600, Taral wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:53:51AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > > On Feb 16, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> wrote:
> > > >klecker. When their IP changes (since it is only quasi static) mail will
> > > >spool quietly on klecker until the DNS IP is changed, then it will spool
> > > Looks like reinventing the wheel. You really hate UUCP, don't you?
> > But UUCP still requires polling, just like POP and IMAP. This solution
> > allows for direct delivery when the IP isn't changing.
> That's not true. There's no reason klecker cannot call out,
> using uucp-over-tcp or whatever to your site. It would be
> very like SMTP delivery, with the added benefit that klecker
> would need to log in to your machine. So if your IP changed,
> and someone else got it before you can advise debian.net, your
> mail WON'T be delivered to a stranger.
Unless, of course, the person who takes over your IP does so maliciously,
knowing that you're having your mail forwarded in this fashion, and allows
uucp to log in without password verification in order to get ahold of your
mail...
Who, me, paranoid? :D
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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