[hashcash] Re: Mutt and hashcash
- From: Adam Back <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hashcash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 09:36:07 -0500
That sounds like a quite portable way to do this, should work for many
unix mailers.
I'd be interested to try using it myself. My only complication is I am
using mutt on a machine where I am not root, and also I am not sure how
long a process left running (the daemon) would last by itself. Well in
my case so far I was thinking of generating smaller stamps (eg 20 bits),
so probably that wouldn't matter too much. And I guess the daemon just
leaves things in the queue if it hasn't processed them fully.
Please send the code! Can you put it on the web? (eg. As alpha/beta if
you're still changing it).
Adam
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.
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