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- From: woods@claven.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
- Subject: Re: Replacing UUCP with SMTP in this age...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.163754.15178@claven.ucar.edu>
- Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR Boulder, CO
- References: <1992Sep9.220304.5690@tigger.jvnc.net> <CKD.92Sep9194820@loiosh.eff.org> <1992Sep10.153316.17758@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 16:37:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep10.153316.17758@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Code-03 LCDR Michael E. Dobson) writes:
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- >Another option is the use of POP clients and servers. We do that here,
- >especially for DOS users, over SLIP. This does require an account for each
- >user on the server
-
- Well, if you want to use POP right out of the bag, yes, but I hacked the
- Berkeley POP3 server without too much trouble to use an auxiliary password
- file for authenticating users, along with a trivial script to deliver mail
- for such users, so that only a mailbox on the server (and a special "pop"
- user) is required on the server.
-
- > and doesn't help for dial-up machines with multiple users.
-
- I'm not sure I follow this one. The POP servers that I have seen require
- a user name and password to be entered (with or without the above hack)
- regardless of who the connecting host is. I don't see why you shouldn't
- be able to access multiple POP mailboxes from the same client host.
-
- --Greg
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