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Bug 173333 - net-mail/autorespond-2.0.5 version bump + new useflag for default behavior regarding appending of mails
Summary: net-mail/autorespond-2.0.5 version bump + new useflag for default behavior re...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Server (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Robin Johnson
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Reported: 2007-04-04 11:28 UTC by Patrice Bouvard
Modified: 2008-06-25 03:52 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
New Ebuild for 2.0.5 version + 'noappend' useflag (autorespond-2.0.5.ebuild,791 bytes, text/plain)
2007-04-04 11:30 UTC, Patrice Bouvard
Details
the patch used by the 'noappend' useflag (autorespond-2.0.5-noappend.diff,247 bytes, patch)
2007-04-04 11:32 UTC, Patrice Bouvard
Details | Diff

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Description Patrice Bouvard 2007-04-04 11:28:32 UTC
Hi !

http://inter7.com/index.php?page=development reports autorespond 2.0.5 since 9/18/2003 and there is no ebuild for this version in Portage. Last available version is 2.0.4.

I made a new ebuild because of the patches. I think they are not needed anymore as version 2.0.5 includes it already.
Another reason I made a new ebuild is because of SRC_URI. 2.0.4 is hosted by SF, 2.0.5 is hosted directly by inter7.

And the last reason of this new ebuild is a patch I made :

(in the following, I'm not sure of the term "bounce". Please understand it as 'the mail generated by autorespond')
By default, autorespond appends the original mail to the bounce. That's a feature that could be used by spammers. One could forge a mail with fake reply-to/from address and with a spam text. autorespond will then send the bounce _with the spam_ to the fake reply-to/from address and your server will act as a spam source (and maybe appear in black-lists)

My patch adds a useflag which changes this default behavior.

One problem I had during the making of this ebuild : I could not generate the ChangeLog file and then "dodoc" would output a warning about a file not found.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Patrice Bouvard 2007-04-04 11:30:58 UTC
Created attachment 115430 [details]
New Ebuild for 2.0.5 version + 'noappend' useflag
Comment 2 Patrice Bouvard 2007-04-04 11:32:20 UTC
Created attachment 115431 [details, diff]
the patch used by the 'noappend' useflag
Comment 3 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2008-06-25 03:52:55 UTC
incvs.
your patch done differently.