On Friday, March 9 at 10:21 PM, quoth Sami Farin:
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:49:44 -0700, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
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3. Hack qmail-smtpd such that it does what rblsmtpd does only when
clients issue a MAIL FROM command, and only if they haven't
already authenticated. (I seem to vaguely recall that someone
wrote a patch to do this, but I can't vouch for the quality of
such patches... in my personal opinion, this is a bad
solution.)
Tell one reason why this feature is a bad solution.
1. It requires mucking with qmail-smtpd.c unnecessarily.
2. It requires qmail-smtpd to rely on a resolver library.
3. Blacklists must either be hardcoded, or require command-line
options (which requires more complex command-line parsing, which
will require hand-tuning to work well with your SMTP-AUTH patch),
or defined in yet-another-control-file.
4. I don't like it.
Though, truth be told, #4 is sufficient for me, and I reserve the
right to dispense recommendations based solely on #4.
~Kyle
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