popa3d-users - Re: popa3d with the patch from bartek marcinkiewicz

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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 22:42:58 +0000
From: "Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson" <hhg@...a.is>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: popa3d with the patch from bartek marcinkiewicz

On  0, Sascha Knoll <sascha@...ue.de> wrote:
> I'm running popa3d on OpenBSD 3.1 and patched it with
> the patch from bartek marcinkiewicz (contrib/popa3d) 
> to be able to use it together with Pop-before-smtp.
> The result is, if I start it through popa3d -D it
> loggs the session-ip to /var/log/daemon, if inetd
> starts it (pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/popa3d popa3d)
> the session-ip isn't logged?! 
> What's the reason for this behaviour?

Only the standalone mode logs the session IP. You could add a
getpeername() + inet_ntoa() to log the session IP when popa3d
is run via inetd.

> And is it possible to force popa3d to log into /var/log/maillog?
> The manpage doesn't give any clues..

It depends on your syslog configuration. In standalone mode the
session IP is logged to LOG_INFO.

-- hhg