Milter-greylist

Version 1.5.12 is out. One more time, this is a 1.6 release candidate. If we
find no serious bugs, we'll turn it into 1.6. 

http://ftp.espci.fr/pub/milter-greylist/milter-greylist-1.5.12.tgz
MD5 (milter-greylist-1.5.12.tgz) = 8397b5919dcaf0b6a7f330484a912f7e

From the ChangLog:
1.5.12:
        More broken servers in the default config file
        Fix wrong sync queue counter computations (Attila Bruncsak)
        Add a -c option to just check the config and exit (Klas Heggemann)

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
Il y a 10 sortes de personnes dans le monde: ceux qui comprennent 
le binaire et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas.
manu@...

... Hi, I will move from 1.4 to 1.5.12 - nobody mentioned problems with this version so It should be - this week-end. Sorry for being silent lately. I will

S L <milter@...> wrote:

> I will move from 1.4 to 1.5.12 - nobody mentioned problems with this 
> version so It should be - this week-end. 

1.5.12 is our second 1.6 candidate.

> Sorry for being silent
> lately. I will contribute the initscript for SUSe as promised. 

Isn't it possible to tweak the rc-linux.sh so that it works with other
Linux flavors?
 
> In the meantime find attached an initscript for Gentoo Linux. 
> You can call it rc-gentoo.sh.in (and replace mail by @USER@).
> 
> I had a quick look at 1.5.12, here are some comments : 
> 
> * usage function in milter-greylist.c not update 
> The following switches are not listed
> -P pidfile
> c
> r
> -M prefix

Fixed.
 
> * Makefile.in improvement : directory for milter-greylist should
> be owned by $USER:$USER . What about using install -g switch : 
> ${INSTALL} -d -m 755 -o ${USER} -g  ${USER}  /var/milter-greylist
> 
> Other option : --with-group

Does it actually matter? What do you win with a --with-group flag?

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
Il y a 10 sortes de personnes dans le monde: ceux qui comprennent 
le binaire et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas.
manu@...

On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 03:34:17PM +0100, manu@... wrote:
> 
> ....
> Isn't it possible to tweak the rc-linux.sh so that it works with other
> Linux flavors?

=> Right now we already have two Linux scripts : rc-debian.sh.in,
rc-linux.sh.in (for RH/MDK) ... 
It's difficult to support all Linux flavors in one initscript. 
It will likely I fear be difficult to maintain as it will be
full of case switches (for SUSE,DEBIAN,RH+MDK, GENTOO). 
RH and MDK are cousins but for the rest of Linux distributions
initscripts are organised really differently : special functions
used, special comments, special config paths ... 
 
Example : /etc/init.d/functions is a Redhatism . This file does
not exist on non-RH/MDK Linux flavors ..
What do other milter-greylist Linux users think about this topic ? 
If there is a general agreement to have just one initscript for 
Linux, we'll have to do some tests. I can test on Mandrake 10.1, 
Gentoo, SUSE 9.2 ...

> > In the meantime find attached an initscript for Gentoo Linux. 
> > You can call it rc-gentoo.sh.in (and replace mail by @USER@).
> > 
> > I had a quick look at 1.5.12, here are some comments : 
> > 
>  ....
> > * Makefile.in improvement : directory for milter-greylist should
> > be owned by $USER:$USER . What about using install -g switch : 
> > ${INSTALL} -d -m 755 -o ${USER} -g  ${USER}  /var/milter-greylist
> > 
> > Other option : --with-group
> 
> Does it actually matter? What do you win with a --with-group flag?
> 

=> I think that most of us are using accounts with same groupname as
username (mail or smmsp). But maybe some people don't. If you want
to support this case a configure -with-group is needed. 

SL/

S L <milter@...> wrote:

> > Does it actually matter? What do you win with a --with-group flag?
> => I think that most of us are using accounts with same groupname as
> username (mail or smmsp). But maybe some people don't. If you want
> to support this case a configure -with-group is needed.

Sure, but what is the benefit of setting the group of the directory to
the user's primary group? The goal is to give milter-greylist write
permission to the directory, and in order to do that you only need to
set the owner of the directory.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
Il y a 10 sortes de personnes dans le monde: ceux qui comprennent 
le binaire et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas.
manu@...

On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 05:39:59PM +0100, manu@... wrote:
> 
> S L <milter@...> wrote:
> 
> > > Does it actually matter? What do you win with a --with-group flag?
> > => I think that most of us are using accounts with same groupname as
> > username (mail or smmsp). But maybe some people don't. If you want
> > to support this case a configure -with-group is needed.
> 
> Sure, but what is the benefit of setting the group of the directory to
> the user's primary group? The goal is to give milter-greylist write
> permission to the directory, and in order to do that you only need to
> set the owner of the directory.
> 
> 
> 

You're right it's sufficient.... 
I always set the group ownership usually to something else than root
for Milter applications directories but I'm too picky I guess.


SL/