REMAIL: Attacks on remailers

Eric Hughes hughes at ah.com
Tue Aug 31 10:54:04 PDT 1993


>With no root privs on the machine, I tried using the at command to
>perform the above function and then reschedule itself for tomorrow.
>Problem: if the machine reboots then the mailing out portion is killed.

A user's crontab is not deleted at reboot, to my knowledge.  You could
simply run a cron job to schedule mail delivery.  (If you deliver on
cron, you don't get an even distribution of delivery times, unless you
use a much more frequent cron.)

Eric






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