Re: [Nmh-workers] Re: Diffs for replacing mktemp() usage

2010-02-03 Thread Sean Kamath
Earl Hood wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Peter Maydell pmayd...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: Earl Hood wrote: Even though no one has convinced me that my new functions still contain the race condition security problem, There was a URL in the old linked message I provided; the

Re: [Nmh-workers] Re: Diffs for replacing mktemp() usage

2010-02-03 Thread Sean Kamath
Earl Hood wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Sean Kamath wrote: Frankly, people who run tmp cleaners that are that braindead probably deserve what they get. Are we to worry about braindead temp cleaners? I.e. I'm sure other apps would have problems with braindead cleaners, so

Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA? (Was: Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh @ gsoc?)

2010-01-28 Thread Sean Kamath
Ken Hornstein wrote: I'm not going to spend half my day reading RFCs to see just how MTA is defined. [...] Well, I'm sorry ... if you don't understand exactly _what_ am MTA is, then how do you expect to participate in a discussion about them? I mean, you're the one who changed the subject

Re: [Nmh-workers] Verizon DSL block

2010-01-22 Thread Sean Kamath
Earl Hood wrote: On January 22, 2010 at 16:26, Ken Hornstein wrote: The port 25 block is pretty much standard for large ISPs today; it's to prevent spammers from using massive networks of compromised PCs to deliver spam. Changing ports is useless unless authentication is required. If

Re: [Nmh-workers] Meaning of +. or +..

2007-02-28 Thread Sean Kamath
Joel Reicher wrote: I've looked at the code now and it's quite clear that the meaning of a folderspec beginning with either dot or double dot is relative to the current working directory, not the Path: profile entry. Does anyone know why or have thoughts on whether these semantics should be