Freeradius and poprelayd - any ideas please

[Bill Brunton]

Yes - I am already using poprelayd and I can set the IP timeout to any 
value I want.


Thank you for  telling me that it is not the best way, but that does not 
answer my question. How can I do it?




On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Ivan Kalik wrote:

> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:44:14 +0100
> From: Ivan Kalik <tnt at kalik.net>
> Reply-To: FreeRadius users mailing list
>     <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
> To: FreeRadius users mailing list <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
> Subject: Re: Freeradius and poprelayd - any ideas please
> 
> pop-before-smtp is a module that you install on your mail server so it
> *always* connects to pop server before connecting to the smtp server.
> Put it in Google and have a look.
>
> AFAIK logged IPs have a timeout of a few minutes. Putting IPs in the
> database when users connect is not the best solution. If they go surfing
> before checking e-mail, IP entry will expire - and you are back where
> you started from.
>
> Ivan Kalik
> Kalik Informatika ISP
>
>
> Dana 28/3/2008, "Bill Brunton" <bbrunton at icu.net> pi?e:
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Well - it seems that many customers have trouble with Outlook and Outlook
>> Express.. If they have an email in the outbox, say they compose offline
>> and connect to send it, it tries to send it before checking email... In
>> other words no POP before SMTP. If Outlook does not send successfully -
>> then it does not check for new email either. So I get a lot of "I can't
>> send or receive email" complaints.
>>
>> I have SMTP AUTH set up too but you know how users are - when it does not
>> work they go in and try to fix it before asking for help and SMTP AUTH is
>> found to be disabled or has the wrong info set up.
>>
>> So - if I could have freeradius add the IP to the popip database when they
>> log in, it would make everyone much happier, especially me.
>>
>> I think it should be an easy thing to do...
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Ivan Kalik wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:08:12 +0100
>>> From: Ivan Kalik <tnt at kalik.net>
>>> Reply-To: FreeRadius users mailing list
>>>     <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
>>> To: FreeRadius users mailing list <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
>>> Subject: Re: Freeradius and poprelayd - any ideas please
>>>
>>> Do you need freeradius at all? This is normally done with pop before
>>> smtp. You contact the pop server, it logs the IP and then you can send.
>>>
>>> Ivan Kalik
>>> Kalik Informatika ISP
>>>
>>>
>>> Dana 27/3/2008, "Bill Brunton" <bbrunton at icu.net> pi?e:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am using Freeradius 1.1.3 on Centos 5.
>>>>
>>>> I have been trying to figure out how to add the IP address of each
>>>> authenticated user to the popip database maintained by poprelayd. It is
>>>> easy to add an ip address to the popip database with the command:
>>>>
>>>> /usr/sbin/poprelayd -a <ip>
>>>>
>>>> How do I incorporate that as post processing step, module etc in
>>>> freeradius?
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas or suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you
>>>>
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