Can DNS & POP3 on the same server?

[Mathias Koerber]

On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Paul Jacobs wrote:

| Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 18:01:41 -0700
| From: Paul Jacobs <paul at netpacq.com>
| To: Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com>
| Cc: comp-protocols-dns-bind at uunet.uu.net
| Subject: Re: Can DNS & POP3 on the same server? 
| 
| I mean... if a pop3 user log's in and collect's his mail from an outside 
| network, the user should be able to send smtp mail with out giving a 
| password to the smtp for a specified time period.
| 
| All most every windows based mail server will allow you to do this!, 
| (except sendmail for NT)!.
| 
| Why is it that send mail can not catch up?

Maybe because sendmail is *not* a POP3 (or IMAP etc) client and thus does not
know how to get at he authentication data of th4e numerous POP3 clients
out there for UNIX?

That saus, there *are* tools that do just what you want, inspect a POP3 log and
modify a sendmail table allowing posting. But these are all thirdparty
based on the exact POP3 client...

| 
| Also I know you can set up a cron event to scan your drive for viruses but 
| I do not know of any REAL-TIME virus scanners for sendmail.....but, yet 
| again there are plenty for the windows environment!.

Check out AmaVIs (I hope I goty the capitalization correct). It's the framework
only requiring the actual virus checking engine, which there are a number
to choose of..


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