ports/147115: [NEW PORT] mail/scam-backscatter: Address verification milter to prevent spam backscatter

[Janne Snabb]

The following reply was made to PR ports/147115; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Janne Snabb <snabb at epipe.com>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/147115: [NEW PORT] mail/scam-backscatter: Address verification
 milter to prevent spam backscatter
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:19:16 +0000 (UTC)

 Hi,
 
 After seeing that this port was not committed quickly, I thought I
 would review it again and make it better. I did find some things
 to improve.
 
 New UIDs and GIDs are no longer needed! (The port uses mailnull
 user instead.)
 
 Please fetch the updated port tarball from:
 
 http://dist.epipe.com/tmp/scam-backscatter-1.5.1-freebsd-port.tar.gz
 
 ...and ignore any previous shar arhives or patches in this PR.
 
 The following is a summary of the improvements:
   - use mailnull user and group instead of port-specific user
   - merged two REINPLACE_CMDs into one in Makefile
   - improved documentation in pkg-message.in
   - other minor documentation and comment improvements
 
 Please inform me if there are any other ways this port should be
 improved before getting committed. I find this very useful piece
 of software and would like to see it in the ports tree.
 
 The startup script includes a kludge to enable writing the pid file
 in /var/run. This is because the software writes its pid file after
 dropping root privileges (which is IMHO not the right way, but it
 should be fixed at upstream).
 
 The patches included in the files-subdirectory have been sent to
 upstream maintainer (Eland Systems) and should be included in the
 next official release.
 
 Kind Regards,
 --
 Janne Snabb / EPIPE Communications
 snabb at epipe.com - http://epipe.com/