[tpop3d-discuss] Another feature request

Chris Lightfoot chris at ex-parrot.com
Sat, 14 Dec 2002 08:54:21 +0000


On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 09:33:20AM +0100, Przemyslaw Kowalczyk wrote:
> flexible then other pop-daemons. I've already done some tests and found 
> a feature that would be really convenient for me: the $(clienthost) 
> variable being replaced not only in auth-mysql-onlogin-query but in all 
> queries. 
> I need this to check if a user is allowed to access his mailbox, as some 
> users are not allowed to check their mail from external (ie other then 
> our) addresses. It has to be 'per user' feature as in every domain there 
> are a few accounts that can be accessed from any address.

Can you not do this with auth-other/auth-perl?
Implementing it for all authenticators would
overcomplicated, I think.

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