Ken (et al),
I have a couple modifications I'd like to see in vpopmail-4.9.11. I haven't
seen any of this in the changelogs yet...
First: Bug fix.
Fix the vdelivermail crashing problem I described a while back:
postmaster set's user account bob as default delivery.
user deletes bob's pop account
messages delivered by default rule (for bobs maildir) crash
vdelivermail.
If a directory is specified for mail delivery, vdelivermail
should verify that it exists and if not, bounce the message (or
something
more useful than a core dump).
Second: Feature request:
Add a --enable-roaming=y-but-no-cdb option. If enable-roaming is set to
"y-but-no-cdb" then go ahead and stuff the IP address and timestamp into
the SQL
database but don't update the open-smtp file or the tcp.cdb file. I've
already
hacked support into tcpserver (publicly available on my web site) to
query the
MySQL database directly so constantly updating those files is a waste of
CPU and disk.
Code changes to accomplish this are at:
http://matt.simerson.net/computing/qmail/vpopmail-4.9.10-opensmtp-patch.txt
Third: Feature Request:
Enhanceme the vpopmail/relay table. Right now it only puts the ip_addr
and timestamp in the database. I've added another field entitled "name"
that
stores the authenticated username. I've also written a few quick PHP
scripts that make that table searchable by our tech support team. It's a
very
handy tool when a customer complains about not being able to relay:
"Tech: What's your email address? (plugs it into the form) Oh, I see
that
you've logged in 4 times today but none during the last 1/2 hour. You
need
to POP your mail again and THEN you can send messages." Of course, it's
useful for a lot more but it's much more convenient to search for than
the
IP address the use connected from. Since we're storing the info in a SQL
table,
we only clean out the table once a day. It's much faster to query than
log files. :-)
name char(65) default NULL is what I'm using and it's also in the
patch file
listed above.
