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Ever wanted to extract the audio stream from a music video to make it easier to carry on your mp3 player? Well we have developed an application that allows you to do just that!

Not only can you extract the audio from the video you can also extract the optimized flv from the video and download both streams separately. Now how cool is that.

Try it out here

Let us know what you think of the application also if you’d like us to set it up for you.

This writeup illustrates how you can enable secure roaming access to an smtp server while simultaneously adding a further layer of security to your postfix mail server. Not 100% guaranteed to keep thieves at bay but very effective.

It works on the principle that if you have an account on the server you are authorized to relay from that server. So if you can authenticate your self to the pop daemon you’re allowed to send mails using the smtp server running on the same server. Otherwise not!

Assumes you’re using Dovecot for pop3/imap access and Postfix for the MTA

Download the source for pop-before-smtp

cd /home/imtiaz/src/
wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/popbsmtp/pop-before-smtp-1.41.tar.gz
tar -zxf pop-before-smtp-1.41.tar.gz

setup some required Perl modules

perl -MCPAN -e shell;
install Bundle::CPAN
install Time::HiRes File::Tail Net::Netmask Date::Parse DB_File

Move around the files

cd /home/imtiaz/src/pop-before-smtp-1.41
cp pop-before-smtp.init /etc/rc.d/init.d/pop-before-smtp
cp pop-before-smtp /usr/sbin/
cp pop-before-smtp-conf.pl /etc

Edit the /etc/pop-before-smtp-conf.pl file to customize it for your system.
# Set the log file we will watch for pop3d/imapd records.
$file_tail{’name’} = ‘/var/log/maillog’;

set the pattern to what you have on your system (HINT: setup dovecot to log to /var/log/maillog and then enable it)

/usr/sbin/pop-before-smtp –dumpconfig
/usr/sbin/pop-before-smtp –debug –nowrite –reprocess
chkconfig pop-before-smtp on
/etc/init.d/pop-before-smtp start

ls -l /etc/postfix/pop* —>this will show you the db being created

Add these two lines to your postfix config

check_client_access=hash:/etc/postfix/pop-before-smtp
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,reject_non_fqdn_recipient, check_client_access hash:/etc/postfix/pop-before-smtp, reject_unauth_destination

restart postfix by running postfix reload

N’joi

If you need help setting up pop-before-smtp on your server to allow remote SMTP in a secure manner to road warriors and hosting clients please contact us.