On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Russell Nelson wrote:
> listy-dyskusyjne Krzysztof Dabrowski writes:
> > Why can't we make something like this (qmail-whatever)?
> > This way we can port all the exisiting patches that everyone is applying
> > these days into one bit patch
> > and later on supporters can work off this patch to add more feautres?
> > Applying a lot of patches to qmail these days leads me into reading diffs
> > manualy and adding them by hand.
> >
> > Is this idea anything good in your opinion?
>
> Sure. Propose a canonical set of patches. About the only thing I
> install, and only on very high volume sites, is big-todo. Oh, and the
> rblsmtpd multiple -r option patch. Given that MAPS
> (http://mail-abuse.org) has adopted the DUL and RSS zones, you really
> need multiple zones. And running multiple copies of rblsmtpd (Dan's
> suggested solution) is too much of a hack, given the simplicity of
> Aaron Nabil's patch.
Cool, thanks! I like being useful. :)
But I was a bit surprised that you overlooked my POP "stat" bug on your
page, since qmail has so few (if any) other bugs, I was kinda expecting it
to get better billing. (maybe even it's own category and little box like
all the other categories!) It isn't even mentioned! Considering how much
a bug like that could screw up a email client, I'd certainly put it (and
the big-dns thing) into the "must patch" category.
It still lives at http://www.spiritone.com/~nabil/popstatbug.diff and
a search of the archives would turn up some explanatory material, in case
anyone needs it.
--
Aaron Nabil
