[hashcash] Re: Mutt and hashcash

Kyle Hasselbacher wrote:

> I wrote a stand-in for sendmail that I can call from Mutt to add hashcash
> to my outgoing mail.  It does a bit more than just that, though.
> 
> The computer I use for email is a modest 400MHz.  Computing 26 bits of
> hashcash (my chosen default) takes nearly ten minutes.
> 
> Given that, my filter is actually two programs.  One acts like sendmail for
> Mutt and merely writes Mutt's message to a queue.  The other program is a
> daemon that watches that queue and does the work of adding hashcash before
> sending it to the real sendmail.
> 
> I just started doing this last week, and I haven't yet run out of things I
> want to change about these two, but they already work fairly well for me.
> Sending from Mutt is quick, but the mail might not actually go out for a
> while.
> 
> Details (and code) available on request.

Hmmm. A similar mechanism that would work well would be an SMTP server 
for outgoing email and a procmail thingy for incoming. I have code for 
an SMTP proxy lying around somewhere. I guess I should dig it out. This 
is too simple - why haven't I thought of it before?

BTW, how about making these lists reply-to the list? (No, I'm not 
interested in having the standard argument - if Adam doesn't want to do 
it, that's fine by me).

Cheers,

Ben.

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