At 11:14 PM 01/20/95, Rhys Kyraden wrote:

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Okay. Here's my 2-bits. I run on the MacOS, but how hard could it be to port this code?

If you are talking about remailer code, rather, I think. The mac doesn't have a built in mail system, like unix systems generally do, which you kind of need. First you've got to get a hold of a mail system for the MacOS, ideally not POPMail like Eudora, but actual receiving mail directly to your mac, and then you've got to modify it to do remailing. And that modification isn't going to be nearly as easy as in the world of unix with it's .forward files and /etc configuration files that let you pretty much direct output wherever you want. Basically, the amount of code you are going to have to be writing from scratch is going to outweigh any "porting" you are able to do with salvagable code. On the other hand, you could base a remailer on Eudora. Which means that people would right to your normal mail account with mail-to-be-remailed, and by means of some header lines distinguish the mail to be remailed. Eudora can filter mail according to header lines. And Eudora is applescriptable, and can call an external applescript (or actual binary executable program, if it does apple events. Which isn't trivial), and tell it new mail has arrived to be dealt with. Theoretically the external program could even check the body of the message for a :: Request Remailing-To: So they wouldn't need to put anything special in the header, like they don't need to with current remailers, even ones that run out of people's normal shell accounts. Theoretically, you could do that. But it would be rather unreliable, and slow. And if there was a lot of remailer traffic, it would get in the way of your normal email. I'm not sure it's worth putting in the amount of effort neccesary for what you are going to get. On the other hand, the amount of effort neccesary would be much much less then writing remailer code which worked with a mac mail system instead of POP mail, as discussed above. I dunno.