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We still use it in our mail systems.
It's not the "best" authentication method, and outlook express
refuses to play nicely with it, but it's better than having an
open mail system.
dave


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Dave Logan - http://www.digitalcoven.com/

"Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!"
- Alice

Yes we use it, well sort of. We had some issues on Debian a while back with
perl hash compatibility so ended up writing some custom code which wrote to
syslog essentially: <ip address> <username> <timestamp>. This allowed us to
have a separate script that created a PopB4SMTP database.

We use sendmail as the MTA so don't have the luxury of a databased relay
table :)

The idea of having dbmail do it by itself is great, and I think should be
kept. From memory the default log syntax was not 'easy' to parse to get what
we needed (may have changed since); so if the above info could be in a more
standard format in the logs that would be great.

/Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dbmail-dev-admin@dbmail.org
> [mailto:dbmail-dev-admin@dbmail.org] On Behalf Of Ilja Booij
> Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2004 4:31 a.m.
> To: dbmail-dev@dbmail.org
> Subject: [Dbmail-dev] imap/pop before smtp
>
> Hi,
>
> I was just cleaning up the SQL directories, and found the
> pop_before_smtp.??sql files. I then realised that the table
> created in
> those files is not in our create tables script.
>
> However, the config option for POP/IMAP_BEFORE_SMTP is still
> looked up
> every time at startup.
>
> Does anybody actually use this? If not, why not, and if so,
> why and how?
>
> I'd like to remove the option, and associated code, if it is
> not used.
> But if we'd like to keep it in, the table definition has to
> go into the
> create_tables and migration scripts.
>
> Ilja
>
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Ilja,

I need this! I have been looking for docs high and low on how to do this with postfix. Either this or SMTP AUTH is critical. How else are people going to send email with mail clients? The only alternative is an open relay - which is really not an alternative.

Please let me know how to implement this.

Thanks.

Ilja Booij <ilja@ic-s.nl> wrote:
Hi,

I was just cleaning up the SQL directories, and found the
pop_before_smtp.??sql files. I then realised that the table created in
those files is not in our create tables script.

However, the config option for POP/IMAP_BEFORE_SMTP is still looked up
every time at startup.

Does anybody actually use this? If not, why not, and if so, why and how?

I'd like to remove the option, and associated code, if it is not used.
But if we'd like to keep it in, the table definition has to go into the
create_tables and migration scripts.

Ilja

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