Re: ATRN (was Re: [Sheflug] am I on yet?)

[Richard Stevenson <nospam [at] team.xtra.co.nz>]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Perry Ismangil wrote:

> On 18 Oct 00, at 11:21, the honourable Richard Stevenson wrote this 
> about Re: [Sheflug] am I on yet? : 
> 
> > Now I'm just waiting for them to implement ATRN, which combines TURN with
> > strong authentication (a la AUTH) - finally, batched SMTP without it being
> > some strange hack... :-)
> 
> I guess you already knew about ODMR (RFC2645), which uses ATRN 
> protocol. 

Yes - that's how I became aware of it.  Someone asked in
comp.mail.sendmail if it had been implemented, so I immediately went and
looked it up (I've got the whole set of RFCs here <grin>).  I like it...
many advantages over both TURN and ETRN :-)  I can't see any immediate use
for it (not for me, anyway), but I'd just like to play with it.  I'm a
sick puppy...

> We tried to patch sendmail for ATRN, but it's quite a complex beast 
> inside... so in the end we wrote a special ATRN server that flushes 
> the sendmail queues. 

I'll go and have a look at that at some point :-)  I agree, Sendmail is a
nasty piece of work inside.  I once added a configuration option so that
you could put up a web page saying why email was a bad choice of medium
for sending large files, and the URL could be put into the configuration
file and would appear in the error message.  I can't believe the amount of
work it took for something relatively simple.

Cheers

Richard


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