Charles Sprickman wrote:
I'm preparing chkuser 2.0, that will integrate all these changes, and will improve a lot of other things.
Excellent. I also have a coworker looking at the patch to see if he can build a workaround. I'm also considering just changing the patch to return a temporary failure. Considering most of what chkusr blocks is spam, why not let it queue on the remote end? Nasty, but oddly appropriate.
Take a look at vpopmail CVS HEAD. What I did was add a vauth_open() function in vmysql.c, and every other authentication back end that did not already have one. It returns 0 if the database opens properly or some negative number if there was an error.
I really think the right thing to do is make that change to vpopmail, then in the chkuser patch return a temporary failure if the database does not open properly.
Should I make a patch with just this feature against 5.4.5? Will someone merge it - or can I?
Rick
