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Re: (ASCEND) Getting Radius to "kick" SMTP mail queues
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:01:13 +0100
"Mike Hughes" <mike@dircon.net> wrote:
> We've got a number of customers who get mail delivery via SMTP
> (mainly corporate dialups, etc) over dialup. We want to look at
> hacking the Radius source, so that when it sees a customer with
> static IP (i.e. Framed-Address = True), it runs a script, with the
> user ID as an argument, which will then kick their SMTP queues.
>
> At the moment, we have people using a finger command to kick the
> mail, which we are not happy with. Ideally this needs getting rid of,
> so they just get one automated kick of the spooled mail at login.
>
> Is it possible, if so has anyone done this, and could someone
> point us in the right direction as to which section of the Radius C
> code actually needs editing? I've found a bit referring to
> "get_framed_address (authreq, where)" - am I warm?
Netcom US [I believe], Demon Internet, and Easynet all do this.
You modify the radiusd to send a message to a TCP server on your
email server. Its not something a quick hack will suffice to do...
Demon should sell their authentication software, Jim Seagrave their
chief coder did a cool job on it...
Cheers,
Neil.
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