Re: BSMTP on debian.net
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 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...
That's right, but in that case he needs to know your password. If you're
using SMTP, he doesn't...
> Who, me, paranoid? :D
Not quite :-P
wouter dot verhelst at advalvas in belgium
Real men don't take backups.
They put their source on a public FTP-server and let the world mirror it.
-- Linus Torvalds
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