Christoph Moench-Tegeder:
> ## Wietse Venema ([email protected]):
>
> > > Well, postfix still doesn't relay mail to hosts with it's own
> > > host name in the server greeting ("host ... greeted me with my own
> > > hostname ..." and "host ... replied to HELO/EHLO with my own hostname
> > > ..."),
> > > so it's not that easy to shoot one's own foot.
> >
> > Loops can happen between Postfix MTAs and non-Postfix MTAs. It's
> > a mistake to assume that all non-Postfix MTAs will implement all
> > the Postfix safety mechanisms.
>
> That's why I wrote "not that easy", not "impossible".
> Admittedly, linux distributors and their users were not included in
> my threat model, I simply disabled smtpd.
Most problems happen between the keyboard and the chair :-) I'm
trying to maintain a balance between hand-holding the novice and
hindering the expert.
> It would be a shame if we spend more time on the discussion of the
> short-sightedness of my patch than I'd have to spend on fixing my
> patch - just to have a better patch documented for those trapped with
> broken setups like mine. Don't panic, I'll come up with that one later.
Good. It was not clear if you were actually going to do it. I'm
not good at diplomacy.
Wietse
