Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 12:26:27 -0600 From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Mitch Collinsworth" <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> Subject: RE: what's a good pop-before-smtp-relay package? Message-ID: <052e01bf5618$0cae0c00$d2630a0a@megared.net.mx> References: <200001020028.TAA05081@benge.graphics.cornell.edu>
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Hi,
My best advise its to wait untill sendmail 8.10.0 its released (its in
beta stage by now if you want to test it), because it implements smtp
authentication.
Greetings...
Ales
----- Original Message -----
From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 6:28 PM
Subject: what's a good pop-before-smtp-relay package?
>
> Has anybody found a "pop before smtp relay" database manager that
> works well with FBSD and sendmail? For those that don't understand,
> this is a program that watches your pop and/or imap logs for logins
> from off-site and then adds the IP addresses to a database that sendmail
> consults before rejecting smtp relay. If your address is in the
> database you are assumed to be a local user and allowed to smtp relay.
> This is a hack people have come up with to allow their local users to
> travel and still use the "home mail server" without opening it up for
> open relay to the world and having their system abused by spammers.
>
> I've tried Curt Sampson's poprelayd from:
> http://www.cynic.net/~cjs/computer/sendmail/poprelay.html
>
> ... and it runs fine for several hours or even days but then suddenly
> goes nuts and grabs all the system's virtual memory. I checked with
> Curt and he has heard of this before but hasn't been able to reproduce
> it locally, so he doesn't know the cause. Apparently it's working fine
> in many places without this problem.
>
> So before I start digging through the code to try to debug this, I'm
> curious if anyone knows of a different package that does the job and
> runs on FBSD 3.0-R. Or even if someone has already solved the mystery
> of why Curt's poprelayd goes nuts on 3.0-R?
>
> -Mitch
>
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