On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 03:41:04PM +0100, Thomas H?hn wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm thinking about running a mixminion node.
>
> There are a few questions:
>
> 1. Is there a kind of "generic" delivery mechanism, that just outputs the
> message as it is decrypted by the last node in the chain and either saves
> it to a file or (better) feeds it to a process (like INNs channel
> feeds)?
Not yet.
> If not, do you intend to implement something like this?
Eventually, but development is very slow right now. Writing a patch
would be very useful, if somebody could.
The TODO entry is:
- Maildir-style exit module to help integrators.
- Implement MH/Maildir modes
- Text/binary modes
- With/without decoding handle
- Attach to any type.
Of course, if whoever implements it thinks that an INN-style
implementation would be better than a maildir-style implementation,
their judgment prevails.
You can fake it now by specifying a SendmailCommand option in your
Delivery/SMTP section instead of specifying a SMTP host. This will be
a bit inefficient (the command will be forked every time a message
needs to be sent) but it might be good enough.
This feature isn't very tested. If it breaks, let me know.
[...]
> 2. I've installed Mixminion 0.0.8alpha2.
>
> What do I do next? Publish the server to the directory? Or are there any
> recommended testing procedures?
See step 5 of "HOW TO RUN YOUR OWN MIXMINION SERVER" in the README.
> Probably I just want it to be a middleman for the time being. That means
> disabling mbox and SMTP delivery, right?
Right.
> 3. Might sound stupid, but at first I made a mistake when setting
> MaxBandwidthSpike, because I just assumed Mixminion to follow Tor's
> token-bucket-model.
> Is there a reason for using one over the other (that is specifying a bucket
> in byte vs. specifying a maximum bandwidth in byte/s)?
Not AFAIK.
yrs,
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Nick Mathewson
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