Yes I want to use smtp-poplock but I am having trouble compiling it
on Solaris7. Compiling it not as easy as the INSTALL file says. Compile fa
ils
with the following errors. Any help greaty appreciated.
Kristina
******COMPILE ERROR FOR SMTP-POPLOCK******
%cd /usr/src
%zcat smtp-poplock-2.04.tar.gz
%cd smtp-poplock-2.04
% make install
installing /usr/sbin
installing /usr/sbin/fifo-safety
find: cannot follow symbolic link /usr/sbin/.qmail-postmaster: No such file or
d
irectory
install: fifo-safety was not found anywhere!
*****My .qmail-postmaster is configured as in the Life with qmail manual******
echo dave > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root
echo dave > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster
ln -s .qmail-postmaster /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon
chmod 644 /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster
At 14:07 00/03/16 -0500, you wrote:
>
> You could do this with smtp-poplock easily enough.
>
> To get the logging information from one host to another, you could do a few
> things. First, perhaps setup syslog to log to a remote host. But syslog is
> annoying, so I'd avoid that.
>
> All you need to do is setup a system of pipes and sockets to get logging
lines
> from your POP3 host to the SMTP host where you can run the readlog program.
On
> the POP3 host setup your pop3 software to log to a fifo, and then have
another
> process reading that fifo and catting the stuff to a mconnect(1) program
> connected to a tcpserver(1) program on the SMTP host. The tcpserver on the
SMTP
> host would read from the socket and write to a fifo, which would then be r
ead
> by readlog, which would locally maintain your database file.
>
> This would all be very easy to setup with smtp-poplock, shell scripts, and
> ucspi-tcp. Or, perhaps you could use a different pop-before smtp solution
but
> the same socket and fifo idea.
>
> smtp-popock is at
> http://www.davideous.com/smtp-poplock/
>
> - David Harris
> Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Inc.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Erik
> Bystr$B�N(B
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 4:48 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: POP-before-SMTP implementations
>
> Has anyone implemented a POP-before-SMTP (selective relaying) system
> that doesn't rely on the assumption that qmail and the POP daemon are
> on the same host? Those I found on the qmail page unfortunately did.
>
> [[[snip]]]
>
