Re: smtp proxy on firewall

["Paul D. Robertson" <paul () compuwar net>]

On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, Carson Gaspar wrote:

> > 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

Ah, I thought all that got fixed for 2.0, or whenever Joe Yao put out
his patch, whichever came second...  My memory is fuzzy though.

> 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...

Google finds lots of hits for races and locks with smap, but they all look
pretty old to me.

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

It's been longer for me, so I'll defer.

Paul
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