Re: Lots of broken mail at Xtra

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:09:33PM +1200, Don Stokes wrote:

Chris Wedgwood wrote:

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On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:42:30AM +1200, Brian Gibbons wrote:

If TED.G(a)xtra.co.nz is an alias of TEDG(a)xtra.co.nz then only one message is placed in the box.

Sounds like a feature not a bug :)

Yep. The bug here is people using POP as a mail transport protocol. It's not. It's a mailbox retrieval protocol. Putting a messaging into a mailbox loses its envelope address information. Sure, you can hack the header to retain that information, but it's a dreadful non-standard hack.

If you really must use POP to retrieve multiple users' mail, use multiple mailboxes and query 'em all. Better still, use a real transport protocol. SMTP with ETRN or dial-up triggering strikes me as a *much* better (if not perfect) solution.

Why's UUCP so evil? It's the best suited solution here. SMTP with ETRN is rather a hack. UUCP is a solution that works well for non well-connected hosts such as dial-up users. That said, SMTP w/ ETRN fits in a lot easier with a lot of US-centric software that assumes the user is always connected. Ben. --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog