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echo: fidosoft.husky
to: KAI RICHTER
from: TOMMI KOIVULA
date: 2015-03-15 11:16:00
subject: Unpacking insecure arcmai

Hi Kai.

14 Mar 15 08:07, you wrote to me:

 KR> Hey Tommi!

 KR>>> My first idea is to get rid off the unsecure inbound by telling
 KR>>> your mailer to save all unprotected-inbound to the protected
 KR>>> inbound path.

 TK>> No, if I save mail from unknown sources to secure directory, all
 TK>> mail is treated as secure. That is not wanted.

 KR> You told us you want?

No, I want to unpack arcmail and treat it as insecure.

I'm still learning the differences between GEcho and HPT. :) GEcho can unpack
secure and insecure arcmail and then decide what to do.

 KR> If you need that feature (toss unsec packed NM) only for that node you
 KR> could achive that by using a hotfix dirty hack and setup passwords for
 KR> that node for both mailer connect and packet password. The password
 KR> system was designed to seperate between unsecure and secure but you
 KR> can misuse it to accept unsecured NM from one special node.

I'm talkin about generally accepting archived netmail, not only from a certain
node.

'Tommi

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