From: IN%"stewarts@ix.netcom.com" "Bill Stewart" 28-MAY-1996 05:27:38.19

It helps a lot to have an account that isn't your main email account, because it's going to get lots of junk in it that you want to discard most of, so you'd be better off without your real mail going there, unless you're a procmail wizard.

A related question is about the cover traffic generators. With those, I've gathered you've got the two choices of loops and nowhere-ending chains (e.g., directing it to "nobody" on most systems). If it's done using a loop, is there any way for a procmail script to determine that and toss them into /dev/null?

Mixmaster-style remailers are more secure than vanilla ones, but of course you need to use the Mixmaster client software to use them, which could be a problem if you're a DOS or Mac user.

Or a VAX/VMS user; there are, I have been informed, enough UNIX-specific system calls in Mixmaster that porting it isn't a trivial task.

- ability to mess with the sendmail logs - ability to tell the backup software not to back up your spool directory (which would be Really Bad, especially if your computer provider keeps backups forever.) The alternative is to put it under /tmp somewhere, and just make sure it recovers if too much stuff gets deleted by regular daemons.

What mechanisms are available to make sure it will recover if /tmp gets deleted? I suspect also that many ISPs might be quite willing not to bother backing up some directory or another - it saves them time and space. Thanks, -Allen