Am Sonntag, 24. März 2013, 01:39:17 schrieb Sascha Cunz:
> Am Sonntag, 24. März 2013, 00:46:56 schrieb Sascha Cunz:
> [...]
>
> I've meanwhile found out that it might be related to a DNS lookup bug inside
> qmail and found an old patch that should addresses this issue. The patch is
> short and looking innocent to me, so I've now setup a local overlay and am
> trying to send this out without the smtproute, once again.
> 
> Sascha

Okay, this last mail went through smoothly and without any trouble in log 
files.

Since I got private mails from others having the same problem, here's exactly 
what I did to solve this:

- Create a local overlay

- copy the mail-mta/netmail directory from portage tree

- wget http://www.ckdhr.com/ckd/qmail-103.patch
  to the files directory.

- copy netmail-1.06.ebuild to netmail-1.06-r1.ebuild

- insert "epatch "${FILESDIR}"/qmail-103.patch" before the first epatch in
  src_unpack()

- rebuild manifest, add the overlay and rebuild netmail

- restart svscan.

This patch from Christopher Davis is actually dated back to 1998; I'm not sure 
about copyright issues on the patch, but it seems trivially simple.

Though, I'm wondering why such a simple fix isn't already part of the netmail 
ebuild.

Sascha

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