on 5/5/00 12:27 PM, Keith Warno had the thought:
>
> 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.
What makes you think that the fixes that instantly sprang up for sendmail,
et. all weren't quick hacks? With the design of qmail I am able to do more
general filtering and it keeps me from having to use a 1 meg procfile
recipe. I use scan4virus.
The problem that this presents is that there is always more than one way to
do it so you have 18 different perl scripts to do the same task ;-)
We have a dedicated test machine for qmail, so testing 'quick hacks' usually
isn't a problem. I know this isn't an option for everyone, but before you
apply any kind of patch to sendmail or other MTAs I would think you want to
test it as well.
Pat
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