At 01:31 PM 4/24/02, Mark wrote:
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>From: "Daniel Senie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Subscribers of Qpopper"
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>Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 6:55 PM
>Subject: Re: PopAuth
>
> > At 12:32 PM 4/24/02, Mark wrote:
> >
> > > Dear folks,
> > >
> > > Currently, I am running qpopper version 3.1b5, and I very much like
> > > to upgrade to 4.0.4. The original package (on my FreeBSD 4.1 system),
> > > was a precompiled version with built-in PopAuth support (for
> > > sendmail).
> > >
> > > As I will install it on a production machine, I really do not want to
> > > run into unpleasant problems with the PopAuth stuff. But 4.0.4 I
> > > really like; it will enable me to get rid of the current stunnel
> > > daemon I have running to supply the SSL connections and such.
> > >
> > > So, I was wondering whether I need to get a special package somewhere
> > > to add PopAuth to the standard setup?
> >
> > Not sure whose PopAuth stuff you're thinking of. I've submitted changes
> > to qpopper which haven't made a release yet for my POPDB capability,
> > which interfaces between qpopper and sendmail, permitting sendmail to
> > authenticate based on smtp-after-pop.
>
>
>Yes, that's the PopAuth I was referring to. :) It is a bit confusing; both
>sendmail and qpopper talk about PopAuth, but they mean two different things.
>Now my qpopper writes IP addresses to a file called: /etc/mail/pophash, and
>it contains plain-text entries, like:
>
>24.219.48.194 OK

Does it create a text file, or a hash file? Mine creates a hash database, 
so that sendmail can read it directly. The popdb program is run from 
qpopper when a user authenticates, and also runs from crontab every 10 
minutes to flush exired entries from the hash database. It's fairly efficient.


>I use that for the pop-before-smtp feauture in sendmail. That's the package
>I am looking for; does yours do that?

yes. As does DRAC.


>- Mark

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