Hello all.
The continued discussions about the "love bug" and qmail "hacks" for dealing
with it have me disturbed. I won't knock djb; the man needs to write an OS
one of these days. :) However there should be no need to "hack" qmail to
get it to filter unwanted mail and I'm wondering if future versions of qmail
will care.
Dave Sill's "general approach" for filtering is, well... I couldn't help but
crack up when I read it [01]. This is by no means intended to be offensive;
it's just funny to read that a *possible* solution for getting qmail to do
what I want is to install it twice.
Maybe windoze will do what I want if I install it twice eh? ermm.. no, been
there, done that.
CERT also talked about filters for sendmail, postfix, and procmail [02]. No
mention of qmail.
qmail is a programmer's MTA. (Un)fortunately the world isn't full of
programmers. When things like the "love bug" hit the main stream, getting
everyone to frantically and quickly slam their doors shut in the faces of
all that is unwanted, qmail users should be able to do the same. Er, that
is, without having to write some quick, untested "hack" to do it. Or
install a 2nd copy of qmail and then write a quick, untested "hack".
qmail needs filtering rules for this "love bug" sort of thing, ie, a new
control file or set of control files. These days, filtering by the MTA is
probably more of a necessity than a feature.
Then again, this is all merely my US $0.02.
kw
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** Keith Warno
** Developer & Sys Admin
** http://www.HaggleWare.com/
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[01]http://www.faqts.com/knowledge-base/view.phtml/aid/2142/fid/203/lang/en
[02]http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-04.html
