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Subject: Re: multiple users in single mailbox?
From: Craig Sanders (castaz.net.au)
Date: Sat Sep 09 2000 - 18:33:40 CDT

On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 02:54:48PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> In message <20000909180516.E83D845638spike.porcupine.org>,
> wietseporcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote:
>
> >When my machine was disconnected most of the time I used UUCP
> >instead of SMTP. If your provider supports that, then use that.
> >Postfix supports UUCP.
>
> Here in the U.S., > 90% of all ISPs don't even know what UUCP is
> anymore... if they ever did. And probably less than 5% offer any
> sort of support for UUCP protocols.

true, but the ISP that provides you with UUCP service doesn't have to be
the same ISP that provides you with dialup access. once you're on the
net, you can get your uucp feed from anywhere in the world.

you can find more information on running uucp over tcp at
http://home.msen.com/~jimsun/jdp/uucp_over_tcp/ and by doing a search
for "uucp over tcp" at www.google.com

if your uucp provider supports it, you can even use stunnel to encrypt
the uucp sessions. see my page at http://taz.net.au/postfix/uucp/ for a
very brief mini-howto.

for dialup mail servers with dynamic IP addresses, uucp is the right
tool for the job.

craig 

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craig sanders