[Dovecot] pop before smtp with 'exact' and 'exim4'

[F. Even]

Jools Smyth wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just thought I would write this in case its useful to anyone. I've used 
> dovecot for a while, as its so easy to set up, its fast and it and just 
> "works". I recently wanted to be able to send via my server after pop3s 
> authentication. I'm also running debian (testing) which utilises exim4 by 
> default. I found no information about how to do it with this combination of 
> software so went about sorting it out myself.
> 
> First I got exact : (a pop before smtp daemon)
> 
> http://adju.st/dist/exact/
> 
> After compiling and installing i edited its
> /usr/local/etc/exact-servers.conf
> 
> It doesn't support dovecot's log format out of the box, so i created a regular 
> expression entry for it.
> 
> <server dovecot>
>     order username,address
>     match (Login): (.*) \[(.*)\]
> </server>
> 
> I then edited its main configuration, (/usr/local/etc/exact.conf) changing 
> only the user its running on (default mail/mail) to Debian-exim/mail. (so 
> that the state file it creates can be read fine by exim4)
> 
> I also changed the mail log ownership so that group mail can read them,
> /usr/local/var/state/exact to
> 
> drwxr-sr-x  2 Debian-exim mail  1024 Mar 13 16:39 exact
> 
> and
> 
> /usr/local/var/run/exact to
> drwxr-sr-x  2 Debian-exim mail  1024 Mar 12 21:54 exact
> 
> Exact's exim documentation is not for the most recent version, so I had to 
> locate the correct line to modify.
> 
> I went into the exim4 configuration files. I use the debian split format 
> configuration. In the file 
> 
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/acl/30_exim4-config_check_rcpt
> 
> there is a line near the bottom which reads
> 
> accept hosts = +relay_from_hosts 
> 
> I changed this to 
> 
> accept hosts = +relay_from_hosts : net-lsearch;/usr/local/var/state/exact/rela
> y
> 
> I then just set exact to and start/stop in /etc/init.d/exim4

The pop-before-smtp regexps I think would work.....

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Frank