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Re: JavaMail bug?

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From	Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: JavaMail bug?
Date	Tue, 9 Aug 2011 22:47:03 +0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:31:49 +0100, Nigel Wade wrote:

> Personally I'd still get rid of it unless you are actively using it.
> It's somewhat in the realm of "security by obscurity". There's a
> potential for the vulnerability to be exposed, or for the configuration
> to migrate somewhere where it is exposed.
>
Its unlikely that anything like that would happen. This is my house 
server that I'm describing. The config is whatever I set it to and nobody 
else is ever likely to touch it.

> Imagine your firewall goes
> down, the mail server stops working
>
Indeed. If the firewall breaks, nothing will work until it gets replaced.

> I see the documentation showing use of Transport.sendMessage() (an
> abstract instance method) following a Session.getTransport().
>
Sure, but they are all static apart from sendMessage, which is abstract.
 
> I don't see use of Transport.send().
>
True enough.



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