Bug 17283 – add badrcptto patch to qmail

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED FIXED

[Description Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED) 2003-03-10 23:51:52 UTC]

please add the 'badrcpt' patch to the qmail ebuild.

patch info: http://patch.be/qmail/
patch file: http://patch.be/qmail/badrcptto.patch

"This patch lets you reject e-mail at the smtp envelope (rcpt) phase, which can
produce a considerable bandwidth savings when someone sends a lot of e-mail to a
non-existing user, so instead of recieving the body of the e-mail and then
rejecting it in qmail-send, you can reject it before receiving the body. This
can be very useful in a setup where you have one qmail box accepting all the
e-mail, and then passing it on to another (q)mail box behind it."

the patch is GPL.

[Comment 1 Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED) 2003-05-01 13:18:18 UTC]

there seems to be a more robust version of this patch at:

http://www.iecc.com/bad-rcpt-noisy-patch.txt

and then, someone improved that one too:

http://www.sys.pro.br/badrcptto-morebadrcptto-accdias.diff.gz

i'm not sure which one we should use...

[Comment 2 Robin Johnson 2003-08-05 04:26:16 UTC]

Rajiv: any ideas on which of these to use? the .br site seems to be down for me.

[Comment 3 Robin Johnson 2003-08-11 22:48:19 UTC]

I've added the bad-rcpt-noisy-patch.txt patch into -r12 for now.

I'm waiting for a response from the author of the badrcptto-morebadrcptto-accdias.diff.gz patch, so I can try to get his patch, and if I get it, then I'll consider it over the bad-rcpt-noisy-patch.txt patch.

[Comment 4 Robin Johnson 2003-08-13 00:48:10 UTC]

Ok, every version of this so far has failed my testing.

Ok, i've got acadia's version now, and I've found a bug in the patch itself, and will have a fixed version in the tree shortly.

[Comment 5 Robin Johnson 2003-09-23 20:52:33 UTC]

sorry about the long delay.
the bug in the patch took a lot of hunting to get fixed.
it's in -r12 of qmail now.