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Date:      Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:39:06 +0100 (CET)
From:      Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
To:        jeff-ml@mountin.net
Cc:        Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FWTK for SMTP
Message-ID:  <200002250039.BAA49678@saturn.kn-bremen.de>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20000224134938.00a19830@207.227.119.2>
References:  <Your message of "Thu, 24 Feb 2000 03:43:10 PST."             <20000224114310.PVOW28348.mta04.onebox.com@onebox.com>

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In article <3.0.3.32.20000224134938.00a19830@207.227.119.2> you write:
>At 06:29 AM 2/24/00 -0800, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:
>>This question was asked a number of years ago either here or BUGTRAQ.  
>>The answer given was that FWTK's smap did not have any anti-spam 
>>facility.  I'm not sure whether it has change or not.  If it has not, 
>>you may want to check out the smtpd port in the ports collection.  It 
>>does the same function as smap using a similar process, and it has an 
>>anti-spam facility.
>
>That depends on the version of smap.  Using an old, very changed smap.  ;)
>
>As for diffs/patches/source I'd need to look at the license, ask another
>party, and preferrable make some changes.  Have limited time for the last
>part, but need to test it on 4.0 fairly soon and track down a minor bug at
>a minimum.
>
>Haven't looked, but wonder if they changed smap to either spawn children or
>if it's mulit-threaded.  Was one drawback to using smap compared to an MTA
>directly.

It fork()s.  or it can run off inetd (which afaik always was true).

 Btw anyone who wants to run it should (other than some stop-relaying
patch) apply at least the fix in ports/14826, otherwise you may
end up with mails cut in half.

 wondering why this simple fix still hasn't been committed...
-- 
Juergen Lock <nox.foo@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
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