Subj : Re: Packet password case insensitive or not?
To   : Rob Swindell
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Thu Apr 23 2020 11:34:10

Hi Rob,

On 2020-04-22 13:15:19, you wrote to me:

 >>  RS> Luckily, with password-protected mail sessions the norm these
 >> days,
 >>  RS> packet passwords are kind of moot and probably should just be
 >>  RS> deprecated. Doubt that'll happen though.
 >>
 >> I don't agree here. Packet passwords provide an extra layer of security.
 >> For instance without it, anyone can drop a .pkt file in your insecure
 >> inbound with a falsified source address and echomail in it. If you
 >> process .pkt files from your inbound automatically, it will get tossed,
 >> if there is no packet password agreeded upon for the falsified source...

 RS> SBBSecho will not import echomail from an insecure inbound directory.

Not every system works that way...

Bye, Wilfred.

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