Bug 65629 – DSpam lacks Sendmail as delivery agent options

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Simon Tsang 2004-09-27 21:35:16 UTC]

I emerged DSpam with all use flag disabled.  But it defaults to use procmail as the delivery agent which I have never specificed.  Under the src_compile section in dspam-3.1.2.ebuild, I found that the code:
 if use cyrus; then
        agent="/usr/lib/cyrus/deliver %u"
    elif use exim; then
        agent="/usr/sbin/exim -oMr spam-scanned"
    elif use maildrop; then
        agent="/usr/bin/maildrop -d %u"
    elif use procmail; then
        agent="/usr/bin/procmail"
    fi
does not have a default value.  It would be a good idea to add /usr/bin/sendmail as another (or default) agent.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE="-cyrus -debug -exim -maildrop -mysql -neural -oci8 -postgres -procmail" emerge -v dspam
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
DSpam tried to use procmail as delivery agent.

Expected Results:  
It should use sendmail as delivery agent.

[Comment 1 Martin Allchin 2004-10-13 06:21:28 UTC]

This is configurable in /etc/mail/dspam/dspam.conf too. You may set the TrustedDeliveryAgent, UnTrustedDeliveryAgent and QuarantineAgent I believe.

[Comment 2 Lim Swee Tat (RETIRED) 2004-10-13 22:35:05 UTC]

Not sure how to include sendmail as an option.  The idea of dspam is that you should just use an MDA to deliver, so I do not see how sendmail can relate to dspam other than let you bounce mails around the place...

[Comment 3 Simon Tsang 2004-10-13 23:28:48 UTC]

Martin Allchin: Thanks for the information.  However, I think it is a good idea to have sendmail as the default option because people who don't use maildrop or procmail are very likely to use a sendmail compatiable MDA, such as Postfix.

Lim Swee Tat:  It is very simple to have sendmail as the default option.

 if use cyrus; then
        agent="/usr/lib/cyrus/deliver %u"
    elif use exim; then
        agent="/usr/sbin/exim -oMr spam-scanned"
    elif use maildrop; then
        agent="/usr/bin/maildrop -d %u"
    elif use procmail; then
        agent="/usr/bin/procmail"
    else
        agent="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
    fi

If you use Postfix or sendmail without any additional MDA, you would need to set agent="/usr/sbin/sendmail".

[Comment 4 David Blewett 2004-10-15 06:07:06 UTC]

Also, the USE flag courier doesn't show up when doing emerge dspam -pv. The Courier-MTA package installs maildrop, so there should be a section like this:

elif use courier; then
        agent="/usr/bin/maildrop -d %u"

I see further down in the ebuild that it checks for a courier use flag, but it's not in the list at the top.

[Comment 5 Lim Swee Tat (RETIRED) 2004-10-16 10:07:17 UTC]

Hi David and Simon,
  Thanks for the feedback.  I'll be updating the existing ebuilds.  Hopefully, we should see the pr1 in tonight.

Regards
Lim Swee Tat