Hello Charles -
On Wednesday 10 January 2001 11:57, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is a bit off-topic, but then again it only really applies to
> radiator...
>
> I just started using IPass for roaming and then remembered that I needed
> to find a way to let my roaming users relay mail through our mailserver.
> We aren't yet running a version of sendmail that supports smtp-auth, and
> even if we did, it would still be a mess getting info on a number of
> accounts on different machines all to the mailserver that dialup customers
> use. I looked at the existing POP-before-SMTP hacks, and they are pretty
> ugly; all but one simply tail the logfile watching for logins...
>
> I figured I could hack together something less ugly, and this is what I'm
> going to do. I'd appreciate any comments...
>
> I already have a (MySQL) database containing a list of all online users
> for my Radiator sessionDB. Over time it looks like this is at least 99%
> accurate, and when it errs, it seems to err in the direction of showing
> someone online who is no longer online. So rather than looking at my POP
> logs, I'm going to write a little perl script that queries the db for
> foreign IPs and writes out an access file that sendmail can read.
>
> I'm hoping to eventually include building the actual dbm file in the perl
> script so that I don't rely on any external commands.
>
> If anyone has any other neat ideas on this, I'd like to hear them. While
> this is basically a hack, it should scale well, and it can even be set up
> on multiple machines (as long as the remote machine can connect to the SQL
> server with the radonline db) so no matter what mailhost your user hits,
> they'll be able to relay mail...
>
With a bit of Perl and DBD/DBI, you might even be able to get sendmail to
talk to a little process that would check the session database directly.
cheers
Hugh (who is no sendmail gun...)
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