[plug] Easymail

[david.buddrige at mitswa.com.au]

I'm interested.. 8-)

My brother reckons that doing the hardware component so we can get a packet
dump is _really_ easy - having looked at the description posted last week...
I wouldn't mind trying my hand to hack the software myself... 8-)

Cheers

Dave....

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mike Holland [SMTP:myk at golden.wattle.id.au]
> Sent:	Monday, March 22, 1999 11:11 AM
> To:	plug at linux.org.au
> Subject:	Re: [plug] Easymail
> 
> > Too much of a newbie to know about such software on Linux but here's an
> > old-timer's trick which worked reliably bL (before Linux).
> > Take two silicon signal diodes (1N914, 1N4148 or similar) and connect
> 
> Cool, there aren't too many opportunities left for good hardware hacks
> left in computers. (Gone are the days when you could modify your floppy
> controller or ports board.)
> 
> In this case, it would depend on Eeasymail using half duplex and clear
> EOLs. That would work for sendmail, I guess, so maybe easymail too.
> And if not, it may be too messy anyhow.
> 
> But is anyone seriously motivated on this? I'd never use it, but will
> offer to look at the data.
> 
> 
> Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
>                           --==--
> 3rd Law of Computing:
>         Anything that can go wr
> fortune: Segmentation violation -- Core dumped