efinley@??? said:
} I've implemented a POP-before-send with exim. It's fairly easy, and
} works great.
[...]
} And then run this program and make sure that you have it set to start
} when you boot up.
Nice idea, but...
- My /var/log/maillog for yesterday is 14MB long.
- At the end of the day you would be able to relay from just about
anywhere.... if you waited the 15 minutes for the perl script to
get hit for your incoming SMTP and parse the 14MB log
I have some code, which I can't release right now, but is part of our spam
traps. It uses the perl File::Tail module to sit on the end of the log
file and keeps a hash of seen IP addresses. When this hash significantly
changes the disk db file is updated. It would be a little slow for
pop-before-SMTP but could be adapted - and that description is enough for
someone to reimplement in around 45 minutes.
A threaded version would be capable of handling a FIFO type file built on
demand.
Nigel.
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