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Re: [Nmh-workers] Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA?
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Earl Hood |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA? |
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Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:28:50 -0600 |
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).
There are some organizations where all network traffic
must be encrypted, and if MUAs are to submit to a
central MTA for delivery, nmh would need TLS support
to do this.
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.
--ewh
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA?, (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA?, Joel Reicher, 2010/01/29
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA?, markus schnalke, 2010/01/29
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA?, Earl Hood, 2010/01/29
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA?, markus schnalke, 2010/01/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA?, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2010/01/29
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA?, Ken Hornstein, 2010/01/29
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA?, Earl Hood, 2010/01/30
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- Re: [Nmh-workers] Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA?, Ken Hornstein, 2010/01/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA?, markus schnalke, 2010/01/28
- Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA? (Was: Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh @ gsoc?), bergman, 2010/01/28
- Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA? (Was: Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh @ gsoc?), Ken Hornstein, 2010/01/28
- Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA? (Was: Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh @ gsoc?), Earl Hood, 2010/01/28
- Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA? (Was: Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh @ gsoc?), Ken Hornstein, 2010/01/28
- Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA? (Was: Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh @ gsoc?), Sean Kamath, 2010/01/28
Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh @ gsoc?, Ken Hornstein, 2010/01/27
Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh @ gsoc?, rader, 2010/01/28