On 26/02/2008 11:07 AM, Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 15:56 +0000, Justin Mason wrote: >> The fix would be to implement support for IPv6 trust paths: >> >> http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4503 >> http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4964 > > Ok, so you're telling me that not only is this bug known, but it went > unfixed fot over a year?
Yeah -- although I consider it a feature enhancement, not a bug... SA just doesn't support IPv6. Full blown IPv6 support has been on my list of things I'd like to do for just over three years now. bug 4964 describes at most half of what needs to be done to implement full support for IPv6. > I must admit that I don't know much of SAs internals or how hard it is > to fix this "the correct way". > > However a bug like that should have been fixed -- or at least worked > around by now. If you or your company would like to fund the development of it, I'm willing to prioritize the work. Seriously. Otherwise, "should have by now" does not apply to free software. Especially free software that is easily monetized by its users. If the lack of a feature you want doesn't bother anyone else enough to implement it the only one you can expect to dedicate time or resources to the work is yourself. > But then, I'm only a stupid user and who cares about those %) That's absurd. If we didn't care about users we wouldn't expend the effort to support the software (which is often as much or more than the effort spent actually developing the software) or implementing anything that doesn't benefit us directly. In the case of IPv6 (in SA), none of us have had the need for it ourselves or perceived the need of it by enough users being greater than the need for other things we've spent our time on instead. Daryl
