Hello ! Do you think you could consider including pop-before-smtp in Gentoo. It's a tool to allow relaying with an MTA after pop authentification. So you want to allow your users to send e-mail through smtp but you don't want to become a spam haven? What do you do? Setup a pop-before-smtp daemon of course! Now only users who can authenticate through pop can send e-mail through your mail server.
pop-before-smtp in c requires modifications to source code to specify a specific pop server before installation. There is no way I can see, how to determine which pop server the package installer is planning on using. Interactive ebuilds which take user input have been discouraged heavily as things cannot be automated when a script is waiting for keyboard input.
"pop-before-smtp in c requires modifications to source code to specify a specific pop server before installation", no it doesn't... I'm using the pop-before-smtp tar.gz from the official site, it is just a perl script with a configuration file where you choose what pop3 server you'd like to use. I mean, this is the way I'm using it...
I'll look into it more later this weekend.
Great !!! There's also another package that needs an ebuild to make pop-before-smtp work, from PERL MCPAN: Net-Netmask.
mcummings, the Net-Netmask perl module needs to be added to portage. I have assigned this bug to you until the module gets added. When you add it, go ahead and assign the bug back to me and I'll add a pop-before-smtp ebuild.
raker, module added, back to you
I have just added net-mail/drac-1.12 to portage which is another implementation of pop-before-smtp.
That's nice... I think one should close the bug then...
I promise you... this ebuild is next on my list :) My session is done for tonight though.
As drac satiates you, I am going to close this bug as requested. Implementing this pop-before-smtp build gentoo style would be quite a kludge.
