Re: pre-connect and smtp ?

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2001.08.20 11:50:56 +0100 Brian Stafford wrote:
> On Sun, 19 August 20:36 christophe barbe wrote:

> 
> > Under balsa we only need (in send.c) to execute (blindly) the pre-connect
> > command at the process_queue beginning.
> 

wrong. you need to execute it and check if it was succeful to avoid having
our connection hijacked. if it was succefull you need to connect to it 
fast to minize the race condition. when the end you have too check if 
it died properly.

ssh tunneling is a great mess and i'd rather see people with clue enough 
do it themselfs than balsa doing it and being a big gapping hole.

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