From: loki@infonex.com (Lance Cottrell)
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 06:27:51 +0800
To: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <remailer-operators@c2.org
Subject: Re: Mixmaster version usable with POP?
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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

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