lmtp delivery to cyrus store over unix socket requires /etc/hosts.allow entry. why?

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hi,

Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:

> I don't know about MacOS X, but there was similar bug in FreeBSD.  So,
> our port still applies following patch to avoid the bug in old version
> of FreeBSD:
> 
> Index: master/service-thread.c
> diff -u master/service-thread.c.orig master/service-thread.c
> --- master/service-thread.c.orig	Wed Jan 22 22:52:36 2003
> +++ master/service-thread.c	Wed Jan 22 23:09:52 2003
> @@ -99,6 +99,9 @@
>      struct sockaddr_storage sin;
>      socklen_t len = sizeof(sin);
>      
> +    /* XXX: old FreeBSD didn't fill sockaddr correctly against AF_UNIX */
> +    sin.ss_family = AF_UNIX;
> +
>      /* is this a connection from the local host? */
>      if (getpeername(fd, (struct sockaddr *) &sin, &len) == 0) {
>  	if (((struct sockaddr *)&sin)->sa_family == AF_UNIX) {


i tried making this _specific_ change to my cyrus code, but, to no avail ...

delivery _still_ requires the presence of:

	lmtpunix : 0.0.0.0

in /etc/hosts.allow

i think i'll file this as a bug ...

cheers,

richard
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