On Mar 24, 2013 5:30 PM, "Sascha Cunz" <sascha...@babbelbox.org> wrote: > > 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 >
Thanks for posting the fix! :-) Now, how about filling a bug... ;-) Rgds, --
