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Date:      Fri, 5 Feb 1999 18:30:50 -0700 (MST)
From:      Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com>
To:        Troy Settle <rewt@i-Plus.net>
Cc:        "Joseph M. Scott" <jmscott@ainet.com>, Leif Neland <root@swimsuit.internet.dk>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dummy-pop3 server
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.990205183028.329B-100000@ts.shopnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990205183451.20442A-100000@Radford.i-Plus.net>

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try netcat

diana

On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Troy Settle wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Joseph M. Scott wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Leif Neland wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm looking for a dummy pop3-server, which can authorize anybody, and just
> > > send a single message: 'Hey dummy, we have moved the pop3-server; don't
> > > use this ip-adress, use the name: "mail.our.domain" instead.'
> > 
> > 	You could also forward all pop3 traffic to the new machine.  It's
> > probably unlikely that the people checking their email will ever get the "
> > the pop server is now at : whatever_ip", though this may depend largely on
> > the mail client.
> > 
> 
> 
> I'm trying to redirect port 110 traffic to the appropriate host.  I had
> thought that running a simple script to telnet over would do the trick,
> but at least one MUA doesn't seem to like it much (works great by telnet).
> 
> Anyways, I looked at the man page for ipfw(8), and tried to figure out
> that divert thing, but it makes no sense in the context of the man page.
> Can anyone shed some light on this?
> 
> Or, if anyone has a perl or C proggy that just opens a transparent socket
> to another host, I'd appreciate it.
> 
> 
> --
>   Troy Settle <st@i-Plus.net>
>   Network Administrator, iPlus Internet Services
>   http://www.i-Plus.net
> 
> 
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Diana Eichert
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McKinley Paper Company
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