From: markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
  To  : <masqmail@marmaro.de>
  Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:04:53 +0200

Re: [masqmail] RFC: Removal of configure options

[2011-10-13 12:27] Juergen Daubert <jue@jue.li>
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 05:35:23PM +0200, markus schnalke wrote:
>>
>> Now I want to simplify the configuration of masqmail. Before I go on,
>> I'd like to hear your comments.
>
> I'm a bit late with my comments, hopefully they are still useful
> for you.

Surely they are.


>> (1) --with-libcrypto

>> As masqmail already ships md5 and hmac-md5 code and libcrypto aims
>> only on one rare use case (which is even rare in embedded systems
>> today), I suggest that we drop this `--with-libcrypto' option.
>>
>> Opinions?
>
> Depends. I've still the hope that masqmail sometimes supports
> TLS by itself without using a wrapper script. But if we link
> against openssl/gnutls anyway it's consistent to use the
> supplied crypo functions.

Linking openssl would introduce license issues, thus gnutls would be
the more likely option.

> But if we never will have that, I'd agree to remove the option
> and use the internal code.

>From my current point of view, this is the more likely future.
Anyways, I already remove the option after having not received any
comments within ten days.



>> (2) --enable-auth
>>
>> This switch enables SMTP AUTH for outgoing connections. Again, the
>> only reason I see is for compiling tiny binaries. Probably anyone
>> specifies this option at the configure call. I like to remove the
>> switch and enable it always. At least it should be enabled by default.
>>
>> Opinions?
>
> I don't see a point to disable smtp auth, removing this option
> dosn't hurt IMO.

The next version will likely have that switch removed.



>> (3) --enable-ident

>> Opinions?
>
> Well, if I understand the ident use case correct, ident lookup are
> only performed for incoming SMTP calls, meaning masqmail is running
> on the remote side of the connection and we have to run an ident
> daemon on the sending side.

That's the idea I got from it too.

> Because masqmail will hopefully _never_ run as a SMTP server on a
> public network the whole ident thing is only useful in a local
> network.

Indeed.

> But who runs a ident daemon on the hosts of his LAN?

Maybe Oliver did?

> I'd remove the ident stuff and leave it up to exim and Co. to have
> such options.

That's sensible.


Thanks for sharing your opinion.


meillo