At 5:22 PM 5/25/96, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:
One application of an anonymous remailer that has come up is using POP to get into an account via which remailing could be done without the remailer having to run on the machine receiving/sending the mail. It would instead occur on a machine running the remailer software and equipped for doing POP. Has anyone written a mixmaster version (or additions onto Mixmaster) that will do this automatically? While having the entire remailer with logs and private key in a different country would still be best, if an anonymous POP account were used this would still shield the remailer operator from forced disclosure. It would also cut down on the costs; for instance, offshore.com.ai's monthly price for a UNIX shell account is 50$ a month, but theirs for an email-only account is 20$ a month (albeit with only 20 M/month of mail). Thanks, -Allen
While there is not an "out of the box" version of Mixmaster like this, it would be easy to do. The UNIX POP clients I have seen just dump the mail into a mbox formated file. A simple script could be written to yank out the messages one at a time, and feed them to Mixmaster (or mail-in or whatever). In fact, the more recent versions of Mixmaster should be able to swallow the file whole, pulling out the mixmaster messages itself. This modification was made to support "subway" remailers, which want to send a fixed number of messages (in one email) each time period. -Lance ---------------------------------------------------------- Lance Cottrell loki@obscura.com PGP 2.6 key available by finger or server. Mixmaster, the next generation remailer, is now available! http://www.obscura.com/~loki/Welcome.html or FTP to obscura.com "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come." --Nietzsche ----------------------------------------------------------