Ben Martel
Don,
If you really must use POP to retrieve multiple users' mail, use multiple mailboxes and query 'em all. Better still, use a real transport protocol. SMTP with ETRN or dial-up triggering strikes me as a *much* better (if not perfect) solution.
<infomercial>Take a look @ CLEARs mailbagging product. It even does it on dialup connect or dial-up triggering as you suggested :)</infomercial>
Clear's mailbagging product is precisely the sort of thing I had in mind. Easily the most elegant way using currently well-deployed standards and software, and not that hard to implement either -- the RADIUS server just needs to have a list of domains associated with each dial-up user ID so it can bump the queue for those domains when that user successfully logs in. It also doesn't require the user to maintain any more authentication tokens or anything, just a running SMTP server. The downside is that it does require the user end to open an SMTP port to their mail server. The same applies to ETRN or ATRN based arrangements. Of course one can filter on source address, but that leaves one susceptible to problems if the ISP moves their mail servers around. A better solution is ATRN, which works like the old SMTP TURN command (the latter was never implemented by anybody much) and not at all like ETRN, but of course that is not yet well deployed. -- don --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog