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Re: smtp proxy on firewall
From: Mark Teicher <mht3 () earthlink net>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 14:13:39 -0700
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.. :)
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.> 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.
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