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.

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