On Thursday 24 October 2002 01:04 pm, Jeff Brenton wrote: > ER> There's one problem I can see about dbmail's last_login field, for use > with ER> POP before SMTP authentication methods.. > > There are other problems with POP-before-SMTP, but it is a convenient > way to deal with a situation. If you're REALLY concerned about > allowing the wrong people to forward through your MTA, though, one of > the more intrusive methods would be much better. These are beyond the > scope of DBMail. > > One of the local universities, for example, will let anyone check > their POP/IMAP boxes from anywhere... but you can only SEND if you > first establish a VPN connection to their internal network, and send > the email from a trusted, internal IP. Unfortunately for them (and the > rest of the world!), it hasn't stopped people from using > poorly-configured machines on their network to forward spam, because > they're feeding mail to the main servers on the "protected" net... > > The most likely place you're going to have trouble with P-b-S > authentication is AOL or other proxy users. I know this doesn't "fix" > anything, but it does narrow the potential abusers.
Hrmm. Looking at the dbmail source in the pgsql.c, shows use of a table pbsp, seems to answer my problem, but there's no SQL table structure for it's use in dbmail/sql/postgres, however, there is for mysql. -- Eric Renfro Myrddin Computers & Designs - CEO/President Sales: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: (775) 243-4535
