[IRCServices] Email forwarding

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Sun Jan 21 20:05:45 PST 2001


>I got very close to being able to send passwords to an email address. I was
>not at all keen on having to handle more sockets so I was basically doing
>the following:
>
>- Dumping the password to a file. The file also contained the email address
>to which to send the email.
>- Run a cron that basically used "mail" to send the mail off.

     As with nslookup, this is seriously asking for trouble, in terms of
resource exhaustion attacks; I recommend against doing this.  I am looking
at adding the various mail features in 5.0.

     BTW, {ftp,www}.ircservices.za.net aren't responding.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org | New address - please note.
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