I have just finished a quick pop-before-smtp implementation in C... I needed it in a hurry, to make my brother able to send e-mails from his laptop (with Win*!) from everywhere without having to change the configuration, and without having an open relay :-)
It is basically a quick-and-dirty hack: it execs "tail -f /var/log/syslog" to see which lines from the logs come from the POP server I am using (teapop),
it reads the IP address and stores it in a list, next to a timeout. When some IP in the list changes, it modifies the list of IP addresses that the SMTP server relays (in my case, I use qmail with tcpserver; therefore I exec "tcprules").
