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Interesting, not unexpected.

Interesting, not unexpected.

Posted Feb 13, 2008 20:29 UTC (Wed) by muwlgr (guest, #35359)
In reply to: Interesting, not unexpected. by drag
Parent article: DNS Inventor Warns of Next Big Threat (Dark Reading)

What's instead if email ? "IM2000" by djb ?
Instant messaging does not care about message storage. It does not offer something like IMAP.


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I think they meant (E)SMTP.

Posted Feb 13, 2008 23:51 UTC (Wed) by jd (guest, #26381) [Link]

Their complaints wouldn't apply to X.400 (which is still e-mail), where something like IMAP or POP3 would certainly be very usable.

I think most people have given up on Lotus Notes, and DEC Mail had numerous scripting vulnerabilities that made it a Really Bad System. Trying to think of any other half-decent mechanisms, but nothing springs to mind.

Since delivery of e-mail is essentially appending to files (a special case of patching), there are probably ways of using version control systems to deliver multiple e-mails (even to multiple users) in a single network transaction securely. Never heard of anyone doing this though.

I think they meant (E)SMTP.

Posted Feb 14, 2008 12:02 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

> Since delivery of e-mail is essentially appending to files (

Only if you've not switched to maildir-like stores yet

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