FYI: ATRN is bad from a security point of view.

Reason: "My need is for a simple device
that simply queues mail and relays it on-demand, no delivery necessary."
One can send (snail)mail to anyone in the directory, but I want to keep my
own mail inbox hidden.

Harmeet
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Schnitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 7:32 PM
Subject: ATRN


I need to use ATRN to pull mail from a relay into an Exchange server
which has a dynamic IP address.  Does James support ATRN?

I'm guessing it doesn't, since a search of the mail archives and
documentation turns up nada.

The next question is:  How amenable is the James architecture to
supporting ATRN?  I notice SMTP AUTH is already supported, which is
good.  But I know relatively little (yet) about the internal workings of
an MTA, so I don't know what else is needed.  Can James queue mail
without delivery for a more or less indefinite time?  Does the
architecture make it possible to easily take an inbound SMTP connection
and reverse the client/server roles?

If it's realistically possible for me to implement it in a week, I'm
willing to grab the RFC and start hacking.  But I'm starting at the
bottom of both the James and MTA learning curves, so I can't even
evaluate the feasibility.

Comments?

ATRN would be a really cool feature to have, especially since neither
sendmail nor qmail currently support it.  My need is for a simple device
that simply queues mail and relays it on-demand, no delivery necessary.

Jeff Schnitzer
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