There has been no comment and no movement on this bug. (It has been 3.5
years!) A patch was included. The bug is easily understood, and the
patch is only a minor code rearrangement, simple to verify for correctness.
Do you need more information? More clarification? Why can't this get
fixed? Can you at least comment on what the holdup is?
For us the situation is a pain: everytime you modify ssmtp to fix some
other bug, we have to take your new version and manually apply our
patch, build a custom .deb, and install this on our machines.
To explain the bug again:
Say for failover purposes you have two identical outgoing mail
submission hosts. For example, "mailhost.mydomain.com" in DNS could
expand to two different IP addresses. If one of them is down
(unreachable), clients should then try the next IP address. Most mail
clients handle this correctly. But ssmtp does not.
(Actually, ssmtp even handles this correctly for IPv6 addresses, but
does not handle it correctly for IPv4 addresses.)
Our previously submitted patch fixes this bug.
Thanks.
Alexander Perlis, Department of Mathematics, The University of Arizona
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