Randall,
I sure sure you're aware of the vpopmail patch which does exactly that.
I don't like patching source with something that won't get included in the
tree as it means every release needs to be patched, so I often work around
using shell scripts if at all possible (and its often possible).
The 'rather nasty' method I'm using with courier is a cron job run once a
minute that takes the output of a command, generates a file in
etc/smtpaccess/ and runs makesmtpaccess. Its not related to pop access.
If you wanted a shell based pop-before-smtp I guess you could do it by
tailing the log file which logs pop and (this is really nasty but
simplifies removal after a certain period and duplicate ip
addresses) output a seperate file to etc/smtpaccess/ for each login then
run makesmtpaccess. Then in a seperate 1/2hrly cron you can run a find to
remove outdated files.
so something like this to create the files (which runs constantly and
would need to be restarted after logfile rotation assumes logformat used
by courier popd).
perl -e 'open M, "/var/log/maillog";
for (;;) { for (grep /pop3d.*LOGIN/, <M>)
{ m/([0-9\.]+)\]$/; open O, ">/usr/lib/courier/etc/smtpaccess/$1";
print O "$1\tallow,RELAYCLIENT\n"; close O; }
system '/usr/lib/courier/sbin/makesmtpaccess';
sleep 5; seek(M,0,1); }'
and something like this to remove them (run from cron every thirty mins).
find /usr/lib/courier/etc/smtpaccess -cmin +30 | xargs rm
Hows that for a nasty workaround :). Pretty safe but still a very, nasty
method. Of course you'll need the patch for coutiertcpd posted by Sam if
your using a version of courier older than todays cvs (on solaris at
least).
I tend to agree that the ways of opening up smtp access on courier are a
little limited and an effect of that is probably relays more open than
they have to be but then most desktop clients these days are capable of
smtp authentication and most servers have a fixed IP address. The thing
that annoys me more is the lack of compatible methods for securely logging
in but I see that as a client issue.
dan
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Randall Shaw wrote:
I'm assuming by your post, that you are or have a sort of makeshift
"pop-before-smtp" going on? One thing I wish Sam would build into
courier.. but he refuses.
Just curious, as I have been tryingto figure out a good clean 'safe' way
to handle doing a hack myself, and am open to hearing how other people
are attempting it.
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