On Oct 27, 2004, at 14:27, Tony Finch wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Tor Slettnes wrote:
>> Alternatively, you could always use one of the various (albeit
>> inferior)
>> SMTP-after-POP schemes, such as DRAC.
>
> POP is a thoroughly bad idea too. It's one of the more popular ways for
> our users to accidentally lose all their email through no fault of
> their
> own.
Although these schemes are usually referred to as "smtp-after-pop" (or
"pop-before-smtp"), they actually pertain to IMAP logins as well. For
instance, if you use Cyrus IMAP with DRAC, you can add the following to
Exim 4's "+relay_from_hosts" list:
net-dbmnz;/var/lib/drac/dracd.db
(tuning the 'net-' prefix, the "nz" suffix, and the path to the
database as appropriate, depending on whether your DRAC build stores in
the DB3 or DB4 format, and whether it appends a "/32" pseduo-netmask to
the IP address).
-tor
