On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Stuart Lynne wrote:
> In article <Pine.NEB.3.95.980205081716.338S-100000@???>,
> Alan Barrett <apb@???> wrote:
> >> = When the same user connects to your SMPT server
[....]
> The simplest design I can think of would be to have a dbm file that
> stored a timestamp of last POP time with a key of the IP address.
>
> Then extend sender_net_accept_relay to allow lookup IP address in
> a DBM file and allow relay if timestamp is less than N seconds old.
I like this idea:)
> A perl script to tail a pop log to insert the timestamps is only
> a few lines of code. As is a script to clean out old data.
But this is a real kluge:(
Why not add 5 lines of code to the pop daemon to have *it* write it
instead of counting on another hacked program to be running, reading a log
file, etc?
Source is available for the most popular pop servers:)
--- David Miller
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