Re: [cobalt-users] Raq2-"Selective" POP before SMTP

["Michael Zimmermann" <zim@xxxxxxxx>]

Good morning, Taki,

I don't know, whether the pop-gefore-smtp is realized on the RaQ2
the same way it's done on the RaQ3. So you will have to dig around
a liitle.

On the RaQ3 there is perl script running as root, which checks
the maillog every 15 minutes and constructs a hash-DB from
all the IP-addresses which have have logged in to pop within
that interval.

So if you want to allow only certain users or certain
IP-addresses to use smtp one way would be to modify
that script accordingly. Actually I used this to expand
the script to function as an IMAP-before-SMTP.

Another way would be to modify the sendmail.cf
accordingly.

Depending on what you want to do, probably the second
idea might be the better one.

And yet a third way would be to completely exclude the
certain users resp. domains completely from using the
mail system altogether.

All depends on what you are after.

Michael

P.S. If you have more questions to me, please send them
not only to this list, but also to my personal email address.
The list has so much traffic lately, that I might skip your
response inadvertantly otherwise.

----- Original Message -----
From: <taki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 9:05 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] Raq2-"Selective" POP before SMTP


> Hello,
> My question concerns how to allow only a number of domains to use the POP
before SMTP.
> I was wondering if I could stop users that I dont want to use the SMTP
server, by removing their domains from the control panel/relay
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions
>
> Taki