[115] in DeathTongue Changes
Comments on Eudora
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Wang)
Sat Nov 21 02:11:52 1998
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 02:10:07 -0500
To: licks@MIT.EDU
From: David Wang <d_wang@MIT.EDU>
So, Eudora runs on deathtongue now... but I'm hitting a snag in trying to
hack it to work for multiple users.
In the simple case, one just adjusts three lines in Eudora.ini, destroy the
old Kerberos ticket (if there is one), and Eudora will fetch email for a
new user.
Problem is, all Eudora has no notion of multiple users (the INI hack only
gets it to fetch email for more than one user, but it has no use management
infrastructure), so all incoming email goes into the same in box. Not very
good for privacy here unless you're diligent.
I can think of a way to gain privacy, though the procedure basically relies
on NT to provide the privacy. Heck, we're trusting NT5 to do the security
anyway, so it seems fair.
I'm thinking of everyone having their own mailbox folder, and each folder
is owned by only that user, and Eudora has a filter system on the "To" and
"CC" fields to filter messages to the appropriate user's mailbox. It seems
like a fair assumption that user X fetchs mail that is directed only to
user X, so filtering should work.
But it's a hassle to set this up, and I doubt it scales well. Besides,
Eudora's filter function makes no sense to me -- I'd presume that filters
"at the top" of the list would apply BEFORE those on the bottom... but I
personally have not seen a consistent pattern as to how filters are applied...
This is when I wish that Microsoft Outlook would support Kerberos
Authentication and can therefore act as a mail client designed for multiple
users. Then these problems would be no more... well, sorta. The problems
all end up against Microsoft at that point. :-)
The Email saga continues... anyone with a suggestion feel free to post!
Cheers,
--David
