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- On Mon, 28 Sep 1992, David Herron wrote:
-
- > Is the way these message-store-ish things are implemented an issue? In our
- > product the UA fiddles directly with a PP-style ".mailfilter" file (our
- > MTA is based on PP) in order to configure these kind of services.
-
- It may be depending on how and what the scope and mandate of the "mail
- management protocol" is.
-
- One thing that I do not like about the current run of MTA's and MUA's is that
- they all depend on host based authentication and configuration. I don't think
- that it should be necessary for a user to have an account on the host that the
- message store resides on to hold configuration information for the MUA or MTA.
- Would it not be far better for this type of information to be held either in the
- message store, or (better) a distributed network service?
-
- Actually, this raises some more interesting questions.
-
- 1. What types of things will the mail management protocol manage?
- What will be its mandate?
-
- To me it (1) must be able to manage folders (manage the message
- store), and (2) configure message services like those that we have
- talked about. Is this correct - is there more?
-
- 2. Where will the static user configuration information reside? In
- some sort of directory service?
-
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