On Mar 24, 2013 5:30 PM, "Sascha Cunz" <sascha-ml@babbelbox.org> wrote:
>
> Am Sonntag, 24. März 2013, 01:39:17 schrieb Sascha Cunz:
> > Am Sonntag, 24. März 2013, 00:46:56 schrieb Sascha Cunz:
> > [...]
> >
> > I've meanwhile found out that it might be related to a DNS lookup bug
inside
> > qmail and found an old patch that should addresses this issue. The
patch is
> > short and looking innocent to me, so I've now setup a local overlay and
am
> > trying to send this out without the smtproute, once again.
> >
> > Sascha
>
> Okay, this last mail went through smoothly and without any trouble in log
> files.
>
> Since I got private mails from others having the same problem, here's
exactly
> what I did to solve this:
>
> - Create a local overlay
>
> - copy the mail-mta/netmail directory from portage tree
>
> - wget http://www.ckdhr.com/ckd/qmail-103.patch
>   to the files directory.
>
> - copy netmail-1.06.ebuild to netmail-1.06-r1.ebuild
>
> - insert "epatch "${FILESDIR}"/qmail-103.patch" before the first epatch in
>   src_unpack()
>
> - rebuild manifest, add the overlay and rebuild netmail
>
> - restart svscan.
>
> This patch from Christopher Davis is actually dated back to 1998; I'm not
sure
> about copyright issues on the patch, but it seems trivially simple.
>
> Though, I'm wondering why such a simple fix isn't already part of the
netmail
> ebuild.
>
> Sascha
>

Thanks for posting the fix! :-)

Now, how about filling a bug... ;-)

Rgds,
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