Exim pop-before-smtp

[michael.bartlett at workshare.com]

Hi there Wash!

With regards to your comment on the relaying. Somebody needs to do a
successful POP in order to relay - and then that list gets cleared up every
30 minutes. So the "whole internet" can't actually relay in these
circumstances.

With regards to your query about starting the server. I assume that you are
tring to start it from the command line path/to/spop3d right? Solid binds to
inetd unless you compile it with a special configure option. The way I start
it is by having this line in my /etc/inetd.conf:

pop3    stream  tcp     nowait.100      root    /usr/libexec/spop3d -d -n
/var/mailbox/%s/ -t maildir   spop3d

Please note that you will probably want to change the /var/mailbox/ to
/var/mail and possibly the path to your binary! Then you need to kill -1
inetd.

Good luck!
Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Odhiambo Washington [mailto:wash at wananchi.com]
Sent: 07 January 2002 11:25
To: solidpop3d-list at lists.pld.org.pl
Cc: Michael Bartlett
Subject: Re: Exim pop-before-smtp


* michael.bartlett at workshare.com <michael.bartlett at workshare.com> [20020107
13:24]: wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a set of scripts from http://cc.ysu.edu/~doug/exim-pop.tar.Z
which
> is based on tailing /var/adm/log for IP/host information. It then uses
this
> in exim's configure:
> 
> sender_host_accept_relay = "127.0.0.1:\
> lsearch;/usr/local/exim/popauth"


Hi Michael,

I took a look at those scripts and I think it's not a good idea to relay
for every host that POPs from your server because IMHO, you should ALLOW
people to pop their e-mails from anywhere on the net but you don't want
to relay for the whole Internet.


> I've looked around and seen that Solid logs to /var/log/messages and that
> there is no accounting of hostnames/ips - only usernames. I can't seem to
> find any howto's on the web for getting Solid to work with a similar
method.
> Could anyone give me a hand or point me in the right direction?


While I haven't yet managed to run solid-pop3d (on FreeBSD), I saw certain
compile options that are the only ones I guess could see. Perhaps you need
to do ./configure while including the options below??


--enable-resolve        - log resolved host name with IP number
--enable-connect        - log "connect from xxx" message
--enable-logextend      - log peer IP number in few additional places
--enable-statistics     - add support for qpopper-like statistics


Also may I please request that you show me your config file that you use
to run this daemon??? I have installed it but when I put a configure file
in place it just 'refuses' to start.

Thank in advance.



-Wash

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