Re: [gentoo-dev] vpopmail's emerge directory structure

[Martin Lesser]

"Corey Crawford" <ccrawford@×××××××.net> writes:

> What other program than tcpserver/tcprules uses /etc/tcp.smtp?

None. Only the tcpserver which invokes qmail-smtpd uses
/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb (not tcp.smtp)

/etc/tcp.smtp is only used by tcprules for building the cdb-file.

> I still don't see why vpopmail's ebuild can't use
> /var/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.

vpopmail can (and probably does) use it only for writing the
IP-addresses of the pop3'ing clients to it and afterwards invokes
tcprules to build the cdb file.

> Or, I suppose, it could link to /etc/tcp.smtp but build it's own
> tcp.smtp.cdb file in /var/vpopmail/etc/ (since it doesn't actually
> edit tcp.smtp but rather updates tcp.smtp.cdb).

Yes. And if this tcp.smtp.cdb (*not* tcp.smtp) would be used by the
tcpserver which invokes qmail-smtpd SMTP-after-POP would work for a
limited period for each IP-address which was recorded by vpopmail.

> You yourself say you don't want arbitrary users to be able to write to
> config files in /etc, but then why does the now-default ebuild of vpopmail
> require this?

In this point I agree with Daniel. But I don't understand why the
tcpserver which invokes qmail-smtpd should not use the cdb-file which was
built by vpopmail. Simply replacing the -x option would archive this.

Martin

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