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Subject: Re: pop-before-smtp qpopper support
From: Alexander Nosenko (naetitul.ru)
Date: Fri Jun 09 2000 - 00:05:29 CDT

----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel Meredith <dmanmadcat.investimg.com>
To: Postfix users <postfix-userspostfix.org>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 4:13 AM
Subject: pop-before-smtp qpopper support

>I thought this may be of some interest to those currently using Qpopper
instead
>of the UW pop/imap servers

Hi!
(slightly offtopic) note: all maillog-watching-Perl-script based
pop-before-smtp implementations I saw have (small) common problem: they
don't track maillog rotation. The script should be stopped/restarted in
/etc/logrotate.d/syslog or somewhere or syslogd should be configured to
rotate maillog "inplace".
While it's a small inconvenience (at most) it isn't mentioned in docs.
First-time user can step on it (I did) and cut off smtp service at 4.00
Sunday ;-)
Can you Perl gurus invent some workaround better than (unelegant and
unsupported on older systems) pipe to
    tail -follow=name ...
please?

>I realize that some prefer to use DRAC to accomplish the same
>thing, but I would rather give more CPU to running a perl script than open
up
>portmapper on my machines.

I remember DRAC can be configured to use unix domain sockets (am I right?).
Open portmapper is ...ugh... unpleasant.

Regards,
Alexander Nosenko <naetitul.ru> 

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