Re: Messages reinjected to this mailing list

1999-06-13 Thread Russell Nelson
Mark Weinem writes: > D. J. Bernstein: > > > This sort of idiocy happens much more often than most subscribers know, > > thanks to a broken piece of software by Eric Raymond called fetchmail. > > Is there a good fetchmail alternative? I think that fetchmail can be configured to work relia

Re: Messages reinjected to this mailing list

1999-06-11 Thread John R Levine
>Is there a way of doing on-demand SMTP without an IP for the client >machine? (Ie., the client is IP masqueraded, and uses a private >network IP-ETRN requires an IP.) Russ Nelson has some great hacks around serialmail. One of the best uses a dummy POP mailbox, and every time there's a successfu

Re: Messages reinjected to this mailing list

1999-06-11 Thread John Conover
Giles Lean writes: > > Good alternatives for spooling mail for a domain for later retrieval > include serialmail, on-demand SMTP and even UUCP. > Good point. I use uucp with qmail for the users on my domain, and it works wonderfully. Unfortunately, ISPs that support uucp are kind of fading into

Re: Messages reinjected to this mailing list

1999-06-11 Thread Giles Lean
On Sat, 12 Jun 1999 03:45:53 +0200 "Mark Weinem" wrote: > D. J. Bernstein: > > > This sort of idiocy happens much more often than most subscribers know, > > thanks to a broken piece of software by Eric Raymond called fetchmail. > > Is there a good fetchmail alternative? Fetchmail to pick up

Re: Messages reinjected to this mailing list

1999-06-11 Thread Sam
On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Mark Weinem wrote: > D. J. Bernstein: > > > This sort of idiocy happens much more often than most subscribers know, > > thanks to a broken piece of software by Eric Raymond called fetchmail. > > Is there a good fetchmail alternative? Perl, C, even shell will do. The POP

Re: Messages reinjected to this mailing list

1999-06-11 Thread Mark Weinem
D. J. Bernstein: > This sort of idiocy happens much more often than most subscribers know, > thanks to a broken piece of software by Eric Raymond called fetchmail. Is there a good fetchmail alternative? Mark Weinem

Re: Messages reinjected to this mailing list

1999-06-06 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
+ "D. J. Bernstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | Last night, [EMAIL PROTECTED] reinjected thirty old messages | from various authors to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case anyone, like me, would like to purge their own archives of this list of the reinjected messages, they appear to be the messages numbered 318

Re: Messages reinjected to this mailing list

1999-06-05 Thread Dave Teske
Dan and everyone else, Please accept my apology for this screw up on my part. This was of course unintentional and I regret and probelms this may have caused. I was forced to switch pop/imap servers (from the UW patched one to cryus ) and was left with a bunch of mail sitting in users maildirs

Messages reinjected to this mailing list

1999-06-05 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Last night, [EMAIL PROTECTED] reinjected thirty old messages from various authors to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This sort of idiocy happens much more often than most subscribers know, thanks to a broken piece of software by Eric Raymond called fetchmail. Fortunately, qmail and ezmlm have loop-prevention m