Re: Anybody using Pantomime or mail-core framework?

2008-05-15 Thread Matt Burnett
Its not hard to enable HTTP authentication. On May 13, 2008, at 1:07 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: On 12 May '08, at 10:57 PM, Omar Qazi wrote: I have an app that sends emails, and what I did is have it post the message parameters to my server. Then, a PHP page processes the parameters and sends

Re: Anybody using Pantomime or mail-core framework?

2008-05-15 Thread Andrew Farmer
On 13 May 08, at 17:40, Matt Burnett wrote: Now your talking about hackers instead of spammers. It is hard to sniff a HTTP session, you have to penetrate your victim's network enough to be able to do so. You're assuming that the application is only ever used in a trusted environment,

Re: Anybody using Pantomime or mail-core framework?

2008-05-13 Thread Jens Alfke
On 12 May '08, at 10:57 PM, Omar Qazi wrote: I have an app that sends emails, and what I did is have it post the message parameters to my server. Then, a PHP page processes the parameters and sends mail using PHP. Cool! What's the address of your PHP script? I have a couple million

Re: Anybody using Pantomime or mail-core framework?

2008-05-13 Thread Omar Qazi
Well in my case, the script only let's you send email in a specific format (i.e. Hey __, Your friend ___ sent you _), but thats a good point. It's not an unsolvable problem though, all you need is some way to make sure the request is really coming from your application, like

Re: Anybody using Pantomime or mail-core framework?

2008-05-13 Thread Jens Alfke
On 13 May '08, at 4:35 PM, Matt Burnett wrote: Its not hard to enable HTTP authentication. It's also not hard to eavesdrop on the HTTP session using tcpdump, or to debug or disassemble the app to recover the password. In other words, putting a shared secret into an application

Re: Anybody using Pantomime or mail-core framework?

2008-05-13 Thread Jens Alfke
On 13 May '08, at 5:40 PM, Matt Burnett wrote: Now your talking about hackers instead of spammers. There's not really a difference nowadays, since most spam is sent from pwned servers/PCs. It is hard to sniff a HTTP session, you have to penetrate your victim's network enough to be able

Anybody using Pantomime or mail-core framework?

2008-05-12 Thread vinitha
I'm used pantomime framework to send mail without using any email client.But the connection is established,after that serviceInitialized method doesn't run.I given correct server,name and password.Anybody can help me? When the try to use Mailcore framework,the connectToServer function throwing