Re: smtp proxy on firewall

[Mark Teicher <mht3 () earthlink net>]

At 01:11 PM 11/27/2004, Paul D. Robertson wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that is correct, the patch resolves a few of the known bugs, some 
others regarding some tweaking based on your Operating System of choice :)
FreeBSD fans you may have to bang your head on your desk or keyboard to 
resolve a couple of them while troubleshooting.  The comments in the code 
are very revealing to the issue.. :)


> > 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...
> >
If you were one of the lucky customers < -:) > to purchase the Crystal 
version of Gauntlet prior to them being acquired by Network Associates, the 
source code indeed corrected for some quirky wedging mail issues.


> 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.



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