[2010-01-28 10:28] Earl Hood <[email protected]> > On January 28, 2010 at 10:55, markus schnalke wrote: > > > Nmh should work on a mailbox in the local filesystem. Incoming mail > > should enter as plain-text through inc. Outgoing mail should leave as > > plain-text to an MTA. > > Not sure about this statement, especially "plain-text". > > MH was written at a time when security considerations were > not given much thought. I think TLS support for submitting > email to an MTA has become more of an essential function > of MUAs (and the common GUI-oriented MUAs do support this).
I talk about the transfer from nmh's send command to /usr/sbin/sendmail for example. That means from one local command to another local command via a pipe. There is no network involved. The local MTA will then care about encryption and authentication for the transfer over the network. > I'm not sure it is safe to assume that someone is able > to install and run a third-party program on their local > system to work as a secure submission proxy for nmh. See it as dependency to the nmh package, like a library. However, I don't want to discuss against you on how exactly to realize this. You could probably tell me better. But I want to tell you, that you should *freely* think about it. Currently, I mostly hear: ``No it can't be done''. Doing unusual things is always hard, but nmh is unusual too, and we all love it because of that. (Read the SMTP-only decision in ``The Cathedral and the Bazaar''!) meillo _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
