Bug 231269

Summary: sendmail in base is lacking blacklistd support
Product: Base System Reporter: Helge Oldach <freebsd>
Component: binAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed Not Accepted    
Severity: Affects Many People CC: emaste, eugen, freebsd, lidl
Priority: ---    
Version: 11.2-STABLE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Helge Oldach 2018-09-09 15:44:24 UTC 
...however openssh in base has it (of course), and the sendmail port has it as well. It looks fairly straightforward to import the patch from the sendmail port into base.

The current situation is surprising at least to the innocent user, in particular as /usr/share/examples/etc/blacklistd.conf references both smtp and submission but when importing that into /etc/blacklistd.conf it just doesn't work.
Comment 1 Ed Maste freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-09-10 13:21:18 UTC 
Kurt can you comment?
Comment 2 Kurt Lidl freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-09-10 15:24:13 UTC 
Greg Shapiro, who "owns" sendmail in base, refused to consider adding it.

So I added it to ports instead, so people could at least relatively painlessly benefit from it.

I've also submitted the patches to "upstream", but they are not interested in them either.  (Open source sendmail doesn't seem to get much love and attention.)
Comment 3 Helge Oldach 2018-09-10 15:33:18 UTC 
(In reply to Kurt Lidl from comment #2)
Clear, understand. What a pain. I might consider patching my local source tree then...
Comment 4 Eugene Grosbein freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-08-01 09:40:48 UTC 
It's no use to keep this PR open as base system sendmail for stable/11 won't have the feature.
Comment 5 Ed Maste freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-08-01 16:13:30 UTC 
This will not make it into 11.x (as no more releases will come) but we can revisit it for 13+