On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Steven Hanley wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 01:18:59PM +0200, Patrick von der Hagen wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 08:53:12PM +1000, Steven Hanley wrote:
> > [...]
> > > No, exim reads files such as this or the aliases file live each time it looks
> > > at them. I have this sort of setup ona few hosts, all I did was add some code
> > > to the pop daemon so that when there is a suuccessful authentication it writes
> > > to a file in /etc, then in exim I have
> > Hmmmm, I'm a little bit curious...
> > How do you remove hosts which timed out? At least for that action I would
> > suppose you need some additional daemon?
>
>
> in my crontab for root
>
> */10 * * * * /usr/local/sbin/relay_allow
>
> so every 10 minutes that is run, this is a perl program I wrote, it removes
> the entries from the file once they have been there 30 minutes.
>
> the entires in the /etc/smtp_relay_allow file look like
>
> 203.43.239.203:1002980197
>
> ie. I can use the utc value to clear them out.
>
> I also use SMTP AUth using cram_md5 so it is encrypted on the wire. This is
> something no other users use on any of the machines I have it set up on, I
> want it so I dont have to do a pop request or anything else to get the relay
> ip into the file.
host_auth_accept_relay = *
This tells exim to permit relay for any host which has done a successful
auth, regardless of what is in host_accept_relay
>
> See You
> Steve
>
>
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