On Wed, 6 May 1998, Dave C. wrote:
> One of our clients that is currently using UUCP wants to use
> MS-Exchange Server (ugh)..
yes, ugh!
> I am strongly recommending that they use a third party UUCP package
> Exchange rather than ETRN as recommended by the Exchange documentation,
> but I am investigating ETRN in case they come out strongly against
> that.
ETRN is OK, but I'd set up Exim to only allow it from "trusted" networks!
> UUCP is _THE_ way to do store-and-forward email over a dialup link. It
> may be old, but it is tried and true.
Erm, well, not many ISPs have UUCP accounts... ob. plug - we do
see
http://www.uk.psi.com
I'd have thought that POP accounts and fetchmail might be a good solution. We
have a multiple-mailbox pop service which will handle multiple domains.
> ETRN is an ugly hack to support systems that can't do UUCP.
The big advantage of UUCP is that since there's no direct IP connection, it's
relatively immune to spammer attack and/or direct attack on the uucp host.
I did once wonder whether you could write a web proxy which used UUCP as a
transport as an amusingly bizarre experiment, but decided it'd be too
masochistic!
Paul
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