On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Jennifer wrote: > Dear IMAP people > > I have a POPBEFORESMTP question here, and wish to get your precious help and > advice. > > We have a PC mail server, FreeBSD4.3, with IMAP200C installed as mail > demaeon. > > Recently we are trying to put POPBEFORESMTP features on our little mail > server, here is the article about POPBEFORESMTP for your reference > http://www.iecc.com/pop-before-smtp.html > This article recommend to add some patches to file: pop_pass.c to > demaeon--qpopper. This patch enable POPBEFORESMTP feature on mail server. [snip..] > Your reply will be highly appreciated. > Jennifer Zhao
Jennifer, This question should be directed to the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mail list as it is specific to the UWash IMAP implementation. Using SMTPAUTH with your MTA is the best way to handle this issue, but if you cannot do that, some kind of pop/imap-before-smtp is a work-around. We have used the DRAC (http://mail.cc.umanitoba.ca/drac/index.html) pop/imap-before-smtp package. It has specific 'hooks' that work with the UWash pop & imap server. The simple minded log-a-login-event works OK for pop, but is not good for imap as an imap user may login once and stay connected for hours (days?) at a time. DRAC adds code to the imapd daemon that regularly updates the access database for each active user. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa <dbfunk (at) engineering.uiowa.edu> College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin Iowa City, IA 52242-1527 #include <std_disclaimer.h> Better is not better, 'standard' is better. B{
