how does this whoson concept work?

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On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Wietse Venema wrote:

> Sounds like someone will need to write a "whoson" Postfix lookup
> table, so that you can specify
>
> smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
> permit_mynetworks whoson:server.name other stuff...
>
> The dict(3) lookup interface for this can be really simple. Only
> the open/lookup/close method is needed. No need to implement the
> store/delete/iterate methods.
>
> Wietse
>
> Olli Artemjev:
> >
> > Some history:
> > > I wanna relay mail for registered users & I won't be an open relay for
> > > all. At my system I've postfix & popa3d (both choosed by security
> > > reasons).
> >
> > After looking for avaliable ways to realise this I wanna use whoson:
> >
> > 1) It's simplest & has easy undestandable documentation (almost RFC).
> > 2) Ther's already present popa3d+whoson patch.
> > 3) It should be faster then any daemon monitoring log files.
> > 4) It doesn't requre dangerouse protocols like RPC (like DRAC do) .
> > 5) It has simple API to implement whoson compatibilities in other software.
> >
> > Well, pacthes for popa3d are realy fine, but are there any whoson support
> > at postfix? I know that I can make a simple cron script making querries in
> > whosond & then making hash/db file, then I can make postfix check this db
> > for allowing relaying, but that will be perfomance loss. Are there any
> > patches for postfix avaliable to support direct querries from whoson
> > daemon?
> >
> > I made a search in last snapshort & found no files containig word
> > 'whoson'. ;-( Well, the question now is - do I have to patch postfix, or
> > there's a patch already or Wietse planning to implement whoson support?
> >
> > --
> > Bye.Olli
> > MISiS Telecommunications
> > phone: +7(095)955-0087
> >
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