Re: Sending mail without requiring a confirmation
Re: Sending mail without requiring a confirmation
- Subject: Re: Sending mail without requiring a confirmation
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 10:02:01 -0500
On 10/27/2002 02:20, "Simon Forster" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Once you've cleared the dialog box the first time, it will not reappear
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until you quit out of Mail so keep Mail running all the time. This is
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a PITA and was discussed quite a lot when Jaguar was launched. However,
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you can understand the motivation behind wanting to put some form of
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mechanism in place to avoid mail being sent out without the user being
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aware.
Yes...if you consider security to be a feel-good mechanism that is perfectly
encompassed by an dialog box that can be dismissed by the cat, then it's a
security mechanism. Of course, if you're a cracker, and you use Mail.app for
this, then you're an idiot, and mostly harmless.
If you want to automate email in a functional way here are your choices:
1) Get jiggy with the Unix mechanisms for mail, which of course would be
what even the most moronic script kiddie would use.
2) Use almost any mail program but Mail.app and Netscape/Mozilla
The dialog would at *least* make sense if it had a "Never show this warning
again" checkbox in the dialogue. Okay, so you're giving me an option to take
responsibility for my system, and my automation and remove the Mr. Rodgers
dialogue forever. Coolio.
john
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