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echo: bbs_carnival
to: Kurt Weiske
from: mark lewis
date: 2015-07-12 22:48:12
subject: BBS Email Host

12 Jul 15 07:35, you wrote to Daryl Stout:

 DS>> I use DuoCircle (formerly dyndns.org) for the email...but as of now,
 DS>> the only thing the email is used for on the BBS is the new user
 DS>> verification process...sending a random code that the user has to
 DS>> enter on their next logon to be upgraded.

 KW> It's nice being able to have a "lost password" option on
the BBS that
 KW> mails the user a password. So many times I'd lose a password and
 KW> there'd be no way to reset it without trying to ping the sysop and
 KW> hope.

FWIW: that's part of life... and history... better for this action to be
hard to resolve than too easy for hackers to figure out.. especially when
it may allow the hackers to spew spam from the system under the hacked
account's name...

)\/(ark

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