On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 10:37:48PM -0500, Tom Thomas wrote:
> He was able to see that the perl module did not install properly so I went
> and installed gcc in order to get perl. I think. Anyway that installed and
> from what I am being told here is that I need a binary version of a compiler
> such as cc or gcc for your system, in a format you can install without
> already a compiler. This makes no sense to me, I need a perl module and a
> compiler to compile it which gcc is but gcc will not install because I do
> not have a compiler. Does this sound crazy to anyone but me?
>
> I must admit I am seriously considering throwing the box out the window and
> letting the dog chew on the suse linux cd.

Well ... mail server install, configuration and administration are not
necessarily trivial, not least for a 'newbie'. Some of this stuff gets
scary (and difficult) even for the pro's. If you are seriously out of
your depth and level of competence then it's a very bad position to be
in, or put in.

To run the Perl program 'pop-before-smtp' you will need ;

1) Perl

Is Perl installed? If not, it should be on the Suse CD.

Type : perl -v

2) A C compiler (gcc)

You will need this to compile the Perl modules below (one at least has a
C component).

You should already have a C compiler 'gcc' - try : gcc -v

If not, one should be prepackaged on the Suse CD.

3) Some Perl Modules

Perl modules can be found on CPAN (maybe even your Suse CD) ;

http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/

Time::HiRes (in Time-HiRes-..tar.gz)
Date::Parse (in TimeDate-...tar.gz)
Net::Netmask (in Net-Netmask-..tar.gz)
File::Tail (in File-Tail-..tar.gz)

And maybe 'DB_File' as well (again on CPAN
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/PMQS).

Are these installed? Check by typing something like (for each module) ;

perl -MTime::HiRes -e 'print "OK\n"';

If not installed, get the files from CPAN (say) ;

- unpack (tar xvfz Time-HiRes-..tar.gz)
- cd Time-HiRes-..
- perl Makefile.PL
- make
- make test
- make install (as superuser)

After all, the check about should print 'OK' for every module.

4) POP server

This is the point after all - something 'easy' to authenticate against.
The program 'pop-before-smtp' supports a wide variety.

Note - each POP server logs the authentication in a log file that the
'pop-before-smtp' program then checks. Each POP server logs in a
slightly different format.

You will need to look at the 'pop-before-smtp' program and make sure you
use the right pattern for the right POP server you have (variable $pat).

Check the file - it has documentation inside.

Good luck.

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