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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail fails to do CNAME lookup for lists.gentoo.org
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:32:30
Message-Id: CAA2qdGUr3xuHfB7PaHW9ngk9F=VuHk1FjbKGedK1caDyWyKN3Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail fails to do CNAME lookup for lists.gentoo.org by Sascha Cunz
1 On Mar 24, 2013 5:30 PM, "Sascha Cunz" <sascha-ml@×××××××××.org> wrote:
2 >
3 > Am Sonntag, 24. März 2013, 01:39:17 schrieb Sascha Cunz:
4 > > Am Sonntag, 24. März 2013, 00:46:56 schrieb Sascha Cunz:
5 > > [...]
6 > >
7 > > I've meanwhile found out that it might be related to a DNS lookup bug
8 inside
9 > > qmail and found an old patch that should addresses this issue. The
10 patch is
11 > > short and looking innocent to me, so I've now setup a local overlay and
12 am
13 > > trying to send this out without the smtproute, once again.
14 > >
15 > > Sascha
16 >
17 > Okay, this last mail went through smoothly and without any trouble in log
18 > files.
19 >
20 > Since I got private mails from others having the same problem, here's
21 exactly
22 > what I did to solve this:
23 >
24 > - Create a local overlay
25 >
26 > - copy the mail-mta/netmail directory from portage tree
27 >
28 > - wget http://www.ckdhr.com/ckd/qmail-103.patch
29 > to the files directory.
30 >
31 > - copy netmail-1.06.ebuild to netmail-1.06-r1.ebuild
32 >
33 > - insert "epatch "${FILESDIR}"/qmail-103.patch" before the first epatch in
34 > src_unpack()
35 >
36 > - rebuild manifest, add the overlay and rebuild netmail
37 >
38 > - restart svscan.
39 >
40 > This patch from Christopher Davis is actually dated back to 1998; I'm not
41 sure
42 > about copyright issues on the patch, but it seems trivially simple.
43 >
44 > Though, I'm wondering why such a simple fix isn't already part of the
45 netmail
46 > ebuild.
47 >
48 > Sascha
49 >
50
51 Thanks for posting the fix! :-)
52
53 Now, how about filling a bug... ;-)
54
55 Rgds,
56 --

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Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail fails to do CNAME lookup for lists.gentoo.org Sascha Cunz <sascha-ml@×××××××××.org>