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Author: Davi Arnaut
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To: Bernhard Erdmann
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim 4 and SMTP after POP/POP before SMTP using poprelay (was: Re: Exim & popbsmtp)
Hello,

    You can use NarpaxPOP (http://www.narpax.com.br/projects/narpaxpop.jsp)
    to insert the IP/user/time on a database (Mysql or Postgresql) so Exim
can perform
    checks on the IP, the time and the From (from who has authenticade
though pop3).


    NarpaxPOP is a high-performance POP3 wich fully implements RFC 1939
    and uses MySQL or PostgreSQL for authentication and supports only
Maildir.


    Regards,


    Lists


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernhard Erdmann" <be@???>
To: "Philip Hazel" <ph10@???>;
<popbsmtp-users@???>; "exim users" <exim-users@???>;
<cjs@???>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 6:31 PM
Subject: [Exim] Exim 4 and SMTP after POP/POP before SMTP using poprelay
(was: Re: Exim & popbsmtp)


> Hi,
>
> I got Exim to work with poprelay-1.5 for "SMTP after POP" or "POP before
> SMTP".
>
> Philip Hazel, many thanks for your great documentation of Exim! The
> clear and comprehensive writing did save my head many times in the past.
>
> poprelay's (http://poprelay.sourceforge.net/) documentation shows many
> spelling errors and the RedHat centric SystemV script even reads "for
> OpenSSH" and it is untested. I found many bugs using all the options
> printed by usage(). Not much to trust in...
>
> popbsmtp's (http://popbsmtp.sourceforge.net/) documentation reads much
> better but relies on the Perl module Net::Netmask. This module wants
> Perl 5.6.1 but on this particular machine I had to get "SMTP after POP"
> up & running Perl 5.6.0 was installed and upgrading Perl was too much
> pain because of dependencies... SuSE 7.1 just sucks.
>
> Anyway: poprelay scans /var/log/mail written by the POP3 daemon using
> syslog and updates a Berkeley DB file (DB_HASH, not terminated by binary
> zero) writing the popper's IP address (key) and a timestamp (value).
>
> Using this DB file in Exim 4.20 for admitting relay to authenticated
> poppers is fairly easy:
>
> POPCLIENTS =
>

${lookup{$sender_host_address}dbmnz{/etc/exim/popip.db}{$sender_host_address
}}
> hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : POPCLIENTS
>
> Very important is the correct DB lookup type dbmnz instead of dbm (dbm
> will not get successful lookups):
>
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.20/doc/html/spec_9.html#SECT9.2
>
> dbmnz: This is the same as dbm, except that a terminating binary zero is
> not included in the key that is passed to the DBM library. You may need
> this if you want to look up data in files that are created by or shared
> with some other application that does not use terminating zeros. For
> example, you need to use dbmnz rather than dbm if you want to
> authenticate incoming SMTP calls using the passwords from Courier's
> /etc/userdbshadow.dat file. Exim's utility program for creating DBM
> files (exim_dbmbuild) includes the zeros by default, but has an option
> to omit them (see section 45.8).
>
> Regards
> Bernie
>
>
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