[Kolab-devel] [issue2466] How should Kolab Filter handle mails from privileged networks?

[Sascha Wilde]

New submission from Sascha Wilde <wilde at intevation.de>:

Currently Kolab Filter handles mails form privileged networks just
like mails coming from the internet: that means that mails with one of
the kolab's domains in the from-header are either rejected or "marked
untrusted" (the From header gets rewritten!).

IMO: this is wrong: hosts from privileged networks should be allowed to
send mails with any From header, even over SMTP.  This is needed for
bugtracking or ticket management systems and the like.

I will check in a preliminary patch to the CVS, which makes Kolab
Filter respect privileged networks in the above sense.

Non the less this issue needs some attention, technically and
semantically.

Technically:
- The code needs to become more robust against unconventional input in
  "privileged networks".
- The current solution of putting the privileged networks in the
  configuration file might be suboptimal, maybe we can get the info
  directly by postfix?
- ...

Semantically:
- Is this really the right thing to do?  ;-)

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title: How should Kolab Filter handle mails from privileged networks?
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