On Fri, Dec 05, 2003, Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johannes Erdfelt writes: > > > I've seen some requests for a patch similar to this in the past and has > > helped me. > > > > Unfortunately, my to-be-old ISP had slow network abuse practices and > > ended up being placed in some blacklists. Thankfully I had another set > > of IP addresses assigned for the machine in a different address range > > which wasn't blacklisted. > > > > I developed this patch to add a configuration option which will make > > courieresmtp bind() to a local IP before connecting to the remote > > system. > > > > Sam, I've sent this patch in the past, but with no comments and I see > > I don't remember. Maybe you did; I just don't recall.
It was a long time ago, I don't even recall when I did it, but I think it was probably early 2002. > > it's still not in 0.44.2. Are you interested in this patch? Should I > > make some changes? Should I stop sending it? > > The problem I see here is one of a slippery-slope. If you start doing this, > then people will want to set a different source address based on the > destination. I'd prefer do this right from the start, except that I can't > think of a clean mechanism to define and implement this rule. While I can't see the usefulness of specifying source address on a per destination basis, I agree that feature creep is a valid concern. > I'll have to think about this some more. "I don't think it's the right thing for the main distribution" is an acceptable answer too. I'll just maintain the patch as a diff for those people who want to use it. JE ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
