Limit Popfile to works with recognized users?

[Erik_vpj]

Hi!
This is the question.

How to Limit Popfile to works only with recognized users?

I have installed POPFile on a server on the web.
I share this server with friends, but virtually  a lot of people that I don't know can access to my PopFile server.

How can i limit Popfile to call only the POP that i want, and only certain mailbox?

Thanks
Erik

[Manni]

Hi,

I'm afraid that POPFile currently is not able to do what you want. You coul modify POPFile though to check for a specific pop3 host and a specific user name. Check the $user_command regular expression that is defined on line 191 in the file Proxy/POP3.pm.

Regards,
Manni

[Erik_vpj]

Thanks for the Hint.
Now I Try to study the thing, but i'm not a programmer :)

I want to create a list of user:pop allowed to use my PopFile.
Do you think that is possible?

If you have some time for me... when you can...i'll wait for another hint

thanks a lot
Erik

[Manni]

Yes, I think that this is possible.

On the line I quoted earlier, we currently have this:

my $user_command = "USER ([^$s]+)($s(\\d+))?$s([^$s]+)($s([^$s]+))?";

You could turn that into

my $user_command = "USER (host1|host2|host3)($s(\\d+))?$s(user1|user2|user3)($s([^$s]+))?";

This will limit you to certain host and user names (although you will not be able to specify which user is allowed on which host).

Simply replace host1..3 with your desired pop3 hostnames and append new ones with a |. Same goes for the user names.

Warning: The code above is NOT tested.

Regards,
Manni

[Erik_vpj]

Yeah ;)
It Works!

Yes, i can't assign the exact user to the POP, but this is enought for me.
Thanks a lot

If you pass in Italy i have a good bottle of Wine for you ;)

Ciao
Erik

[Erik_vpj]

Hi Manni

I'm here again.
Well, all seems to work until today, but now i have a new problem.

I have a new email, and the user of this email is like this: user@site.com

and this seems to be a problem beacause if I modify the line
my $user_command = "USER (Pop of the emails)($s(\\d+))?$s(user@site.com)($s([^$s]+))?";

The "@" is a problem but i have to use the @ to log on the Pop
Popfile can't start

What can I do?

Thank a lot
Erik

[Manni]

Hi Erik,

try escaping the @ with a back slash: \@

Hope this helps,
Manni

[Erik_vpj]

Ehehehe at the same time....

Yes it works!

I've read this line some minutes ago and with some experiments i have understood to use \@
$s =~ s/(\$|\@|\[|\]|\(|\)|\||\?|\*|\.|\^|\+)/\\$1/;

However thanks a lot for your speeed

Have a good Day

Erik