On Sep 13, 2006, at 9:23 AM, South Computers wrote:
Just a thought/question. I have had a backup server running for the
last year or so now, and it works great. But I was wondering if
anyone out there have any thoughts on setting up the backup server
to accept all pop3 connections no matter what the username/
password, but of course, deliver no mail. The problem is that when
the system is in failover state, and pointing to the backup server,
when a client tries to retrieve their email most email clients
prompt for the username/password if they are not automatically
authenticated. Often, the user will attempt to put in a different
username or password, and screw up their settings, when they are in
fact actually correct.
i thought about this problem and hacked up a trivial POP3 server in
Perl:
http://www.vecna.org/software/bogopop.html
it listens on 110/tcp and basically says OK to the basic set of POP
commands (but always says there are no new messages). i haven't
tested it beyond making sure that it does what it says it does, and
i'm sure there are problems that i haven't yet run into (i have no
idea how well it would scale, for example), but it might be a start
of a solution.
it works on a RHEL4 machine and is pretty standard, so i would assume
it'll work on other Linuxes.
-steve
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If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an
improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v
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