Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 23 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> > So despite turning of this feature, smail *does* check the DNS. I'll have
> > another look at this and will probably file a bugreport.
>
> Yes, please do. Do so on my behalf as well. I'm behind a firewall
> and without external DNS, so smail won't accept anymore what fetchmail
> gets from the pophost.
I did add some lines to bug #17371 as you did.
> I fixed this by downgrading to an older version of smail which I still
> happened to have. Maybe some wizardry with procmail as mda would have
> worked. Or moving to sendmail (at least you can tell that one to not do
> lookups.)
I added 'mda "formail -s procmail"' to get around this, circumventing the
problem.
> I'm afraid the maintainer can't do very much about this either. Still,
> I find this a major bug. It will suddenly break many other people's
> setup when they upgrade to hamm. If this cannot be resolved before hamm
> gets released, it will be a choice between fully connected smail sites
> abused by spammers or poorly connected sites unable to receive mail.
Hopefully this is a compiletime option. Better turn this off completely then
leaving it that way. Or maybe the upstream authors have a fix...
> > BTW: which package has libpcap ? This one is missing in tcpdump's "Depends:"
> Package: tcpdump
> Depends: libc6, libpcap0 (>= 0.4-1)
> Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/net/tcpdump_3.4a4-1.deb
Ah, yes. I didn't realise, that tcpdump was unconfigured on my system.
Ciao,
Martin
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