Hi George, As others have already explained, ASSP has nothing to do with POP. ASSP only sits between your incoming connection and your SMTP port. In your case, you are using Merak, and have been using Pop before SMTP to perform relay authentication. I had been doing the same thing. I agree - the documentation for this is a bit confusing; I just havent had the chance to write better docs on it yet.
Basically, someone (I can't remember the name offhand) has written a function in ASSP to parse Merak's data file which contains the pop authentication information for pop before smtp. This is the file that you need to point to in ASSP's Popb4SMTP. I'm not sure what version of Merak you are using, but it appears that the file format has not changed from 7.x up to 8.0.3 (the latest version I tested against). I don't know if the format has changed afterwards, but I don't see why it would. Everytime you check your Pop mail, Merak updates that data file. If you point to the proper file, and enable the feature in ASSP, when your client connects to ASSP to send email, ASSP will verify the sender's address against the data in that file. If the sender's address is there, then ASSP will allow relaying for that particular email. If it isn't, then ASSP will disallow relaying for that user. It is rather straight forward, once you get the hang of it. It took me a little while at first too. Just as a note, since moving to ASSP, I have forced all my users to move to SMTP authentication instead. It is much easier to handle, more standardized, and allows for more flexibility. Basically, I gave all my users a document how to enable SMTP authentication, explaining that it was part of a spam-fighting implementation and gave them a few weeks to make the migration. Then I created a rule in Merak that would automatically remind any user that was sending mail without authentication that they had to enable authentication. Final step was to give all users a final countdown - ie: you have 3 days left to enable smtp authentication - you have 2 days left... etc. Gave a final 2 day grace period and shut off pop before smtp altogether. I was amazed; no one complained after it was disabled. I had a few emails / calls beforehand, but nothing huge. And for anyone who might be away during that timeframe, they still had access to download their pop email (doesn't affect pop at all), and read the instructions there. If you have any questions, just ask. Good luck. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
