Bug 231866 – ebuild for patch to ssmtp to expose MAXSYSUID in ssmtp.conf

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Trevor Bowen 2008-07-15 14:50:50 UTC]

For: mail-mta/ssmtp

The ssmtp program sends all mail to users with id < 1000 to "root".  The minimum user id cutoff (1000) is hard-coded in ssmtp.h as MAXSYSUID (999).

On some systems, real users exist below this 1000 threshold.  So, this patch was created to expose the MAXSYSUID threshold as a new "MinUserId" setting, which defaults to 1000 (MAXSYSUID+1).  If undefined in the ssmtp.conf, MinUserId defaults to exactly MAXSYSUID+1, as defined by ssmtp.h.

The patch is simple and extends the flexibility of ssmtp with minimal fuss.

I have submitted the patch also to Debian, but since ssmtp has not been updated for a while, I thought it might be good to submit the patch and ebuild here too.

Thanks!

Trevor

[Comment 1 Trevor Bowen 2008-07-15 14:53:31 UTC]

Created attachment 160447 [details]
modified ssmtp-2.61-r2 ebuild to include new patches

Used stable ssmtp version (2.61-r2) as basis for ebuild.  Only added 2 new epatch lines.

[Comment 2 Trevor Bowen 2008-07-15 14:55:05 UTC]

Created attachment 160449 [details, diff]
patch to ssmtp.c (2.61) to enable loading and use of MinUserId option

[Comment 3 Trevor Bowen 2008-07-15 14:56:37 UTC]

Created attachment 160450 [details, diff]
patch to ssmtp.conf to include default MinUserId option with comment

Option is commented out by default, which will force usage of MAXSYSUID header declaration by default.

[Comment 4 Trevor Bowen 2008-07-15 15:00:14 UTC]

Created attachment 160454 [details, diff]
patch to ssmtp.conf to include default MinUserId option with comment

Option is commented out by default, which will force definition from MAXSYSUID header declaration.

[Comment 5 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2008-09-05 20:30:03 UTC]

Thanks for your patch Trevor! I bumped ssmtp to 2.62-r2 to include the patches using a +maxsysuid use-flag.