On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 13:38:14 -0700, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Friday, March 9 at 10:21 PM, quoth Sami Farin:
> >On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:49:44 -0700, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> >...
> >> 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.
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Of course you have to edit qmail-smtpd.c if you add that feature
into qmail-smtpd.c.
> 2. It requires qmail-smtpd to rely on a resolver library.
Untrue. It can also use djb's dns library,
just like rblsmtpd.
> 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.
And rblsmtpd does not "require command-line options"?
It even has hardcoded, useless default RBL.
And with rblsmtpd you have to use same settings for every mailbox.
How lame is that?
> 4. I don't like it.
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