Re: smtp proxy on firewall

[Carson Gaspar <carson () taltos org>]

--On Saturday, November 27, 2004 8:44 AM -0500 "Paul D. Robertson" 
<paul () compuwar net> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Kilaru Sambaiah wrote:
> >    TIS fwtk seems to be one choice, but it is old and outdated.
>
> You get the source, should there be a new SMTP feature you'd like the code
> to support.  If you're not in a high volume environment, don't need to do
> gateway rejection for anti-spam, and don't need TLS, it should work just
> fine.

Ummm... not so much. The last released version of FWTK still has locking 
bugs in the SMTP proxy that can cause problems (definitely wedged mail, 
maybe lost mail - my memory is fuzzy). I'm pretty sure there are patches 
floating around that fix them, but I'm not sure. I fixed some of them, and 
Viktor Duchovni fixed more (well, he rewrote most of the proxy), but we may 
have fixed the Gauntlet source, not fwtk, so I don't know if they were ever 
released...

Apologies for the FUD-like post, but it has been 4+ years since I looked at 
any of this...

--
Carson Gaspar

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