Re: [Help-gnunet] error in contrib/gnunet.conf ?

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Monday 10 November 2003 12:44 pm, Brent Miller wrote:
> In trying to debug the problems I'm having configuring SMTP (see:
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnunet/2003-11/msg00012.html), I was
> perplexed as why gnunet-transport-check kept telling me "DEBUG: no
> email-address specified, will not advertise SMTP address" although I had
> the line "EMAIL-SENDER = address@hidden" in my gnunet.conf file.
> In playing around with the configuration I found that changing EMAIL-SENDER
> (as shown in contrib/gnunet.conf) to EMAIL-SEND took care of that warning.
> Is this the proper option to use?

Looking at the code (src/transports/smtp.c), the right otpion should be
just "EMAIL".  EMAIL-SENDER is not used (we use "<>" to indicate a bounce) to 
ensure that the mailinglist-attack can not happen (bounces to mailinglists 
are bounced...). I've removed the obsolete option from gnunet.conf in CVS.

> However, SMTP still doesn't work and when I ethereal my loopback it doesn't
> look like the outgoing email address is being set:
>
> 220 icculus ESMTP Exim 3.36 #1 Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:20:19 -0800.
> HELO localhost.
> 250 icculus Hello localhost [127.0.0.1].
> MAIL FROM: <>.
> 250 <> is syntactically correct.

I'm not sure in which sense this is to be considered an error (after all, it 
says 'correct').  The question is, what does exim do next... As far as I can 
tell, nobody has tested the SMTP code with exim.

> I'm sure that SMTP is a low development priority at the moment, but does
> anybody have SMTP working properly in 0.6.0a, or is it just me having
> problems?

I don't think anyone is using it (too complex to configure, and while it's a 
cute idea, developers seem to have other priorities).  If you find out more, 
send reports to address@hidden or even better, file a bug-report 
on Mantis (http://www.ovmj.org/~mantis/), and we'll eventually get to it :-)

Christian
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