Pop-Before-Smtp RPM is out!

[Atjeu]

Pop-Before-Smtp RPM is out - Finally, and RPM for redhat for popbeforesmtp - this will allow your users to authenticate when sending email so your server doesnt have to be set to be an open relay!!
http://www.atjeu.com/pop/pop-before-smtp-1.31-1.noarch.rpm

You must have the following perl modules installed

Time::HiRes
File::Tail
Date::Parse
Net::Netmask

Note, the rpm is built for redhat running postfix and not sendmail - if you want to use this with sendmail, after installing the rpm, edit the /etc/pop-before-smtp-conf.pl and follow the instructions which basically tell you to copy over a replacement of the same file you are reading. Then once you do that there are configs in there for about 10 different mailers - make sure to follow the instructions to comment out the mailer you are using such as sendmial.

On the other hand if you dont want to use sendmail anymore, you can uninstall the sendmail rpm from webmin and you can go to redhat.com and get and install the postfix rpm.

If you are running sendmail, then do the following steps:

steps to installing pop-before-smtp

1. install the perl modules as listed above
2. install the rpm
3. replace /etc/pop-before-smtp-conf.pl with this one http://www.atjeu.com/pop/pop-before-smtp-conf.pl
4. replace /etc/sendmail.cf with this one http://www.atjeu.com/pop/sendmail.cf

stop sendmail /etc/init.d/sendmail stop
start popauth /etc/init.d/pop* start
start sendmail /etc/init.d/sendmail start

all done

[somerfeld]

is this the best pop software..??

[Atjeu]

They are pretty much all the same.

[Zoltan Orc]

Just did it and it seems to have gone just fine (dunno for sure, I don't use the server for SMTP I did this on).

A quick note regarding the Perl module installation, I'd have no idea how to do it from command line but in Webmin you can easily do it:

- Go to Others / Perl Modules.

- Click into the first box (the radio button before "From CPAN..." should be checked) and copy+paste the perl modules listed in the first post of this URL one at a time.

- Click on the "Install" button.

- At the next screen leave everything as it is, just click the continue button at the bottom.

- Once it's finished and says everything's alright proceed with the next module.

[choon]

Hi,

What about with qmail + vmailmgr (not vpopmail) + courier imap?

Thanks.

Kindest regards,
Choon