Bug 69516

Summary:	add a new patch to the mail-mta/qmail ebuild that checkes envelope sender (domain in MAIL FROM) against DNS
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jochen Schug <gentoo-bugzilla>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages <net-mail+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://js.hu/package/qmail/index.html
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jochen Schug 2004-10-30 09:48:50 UTC

The page above contains a patch for qmail-smtpd called 'qmail-1.03-mfcheck.4.patch'. It checks the domain part of the envelope sender (MAIL FROM) against DNS. If the domain is not found, the mail is rejected at SMTP level. This makes sure that the mail queue does not fill up with mails that cannot be bounced back to the orignal sender (mostly applies to spam mails).

I've found this patch to be very useful, and it'd be great if it could be included in the standard qmail package.

URL to the patch: http://js.hu/package/qmail/qmail-1.03-mfcheck.4.patch

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester

2004-10-30 16:52:09 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32087 ***