Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: JavaMail bug? Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 22:47:03 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <995djcFq0nU1@mid.individual.net> <99njvpFv11U1@mid.individual.net> <99qjntFk6uU1@mid.individual.net> <99sf3vFncoU1@mid.individual.net> <9acnlmF447U1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1312930023 21132 84.45.235.129 (9 Aug 2011 22:47:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 22:47:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6931 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. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |