Bug 175898 – mail-filter/sid-milter rejects authorized connections

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Troy Bowman 2007-04-24 19:34:13 UTC]

sid-milter has the ability to reject SMTP connections based on whether they pass SPF tests on the originating address's domain.  However, if the connection is authenticated using SMTP AUTH, it still rejects the connection, even though this shouldn't be its behavior.

This problem and its solution is also detailed here: http://www.webservertalk.com/archive58-2006-2-1408060.html

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install sid-milter
2. add "-r 2" to SID_FILTER_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/sid-filter
3. try to send mail from outside SPF definition with an smtp-authed connection.

Actual Results:  
Connection is denied.

Expected Results:  
Connection should be allowed with an authed connection.

[Comment 1 Troy Bowman 2007-04-24 19:36:51 UTC]

Created attachment 117163 [details, diff]
sid-milter-0.2.13-smtpauth.patch

This patch fixes the problem, to be used after adding an epatch line the ebuild as follows:

--- sid-milter-0.2.13.ebuild.orig        2006-07-17 19:06:48.000000000 -0600
+++ sid-milter-0.2.13.ebuild    2007-04-10 00:40:54.000000000 -0600
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 
        # Postfix queue ID patch. See MILTER_README.html#workarounds
        epatch "${FILESDIR}/"${P}-queueID.patch
+       epatch "${FILESDIR}/"${P}-smtpauth.patch
 
        confCCOPTS="${CFLAGS}"
        conf_libmilter_INCDIRS="-I/usr/include/libmilter"

[Comment 2 Troy Bowman 2007-04-24 19:38:14 UTC]

There is a more extensive patch already provided upstream, but whoever is maintaining sid-milter is taking his sweet time in getting a new release out:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1608743&group_id=112121&atid=661330

In my opinion, this should be patched for current gentoo sid-milter users for now, until upstream fixes things and releases another version.

[Comment 3 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2007-10-12 22:30:39 UTC]

fixed in sid-milter-0.2.14.