Bug#351993: ssmtp doesn't failover to multiple mailhubs in IPv4

2009-06-26 Thread Alexander Perlis
There has been no comment and no movement on this bug. (It has been 3.5 years!) A patch was included. The bug is easily understood, and the patch is only a minor code rearrangement, simple to verify for correctness. Do you need more information? More clarification? Why can't this get fixed? Ca

Bug#351993: ssmtp doesn't failover to multiple mailhubs in IPv4

2006-02-08 Thread aprl
Package: ssmtp Version: 2.61 Whereas the IPv6 code seems to already step through all host addresses returned by getaddrinfo(), the IPv4 code unfortunately connects only to the *first* address returned by gethostbyname(). But the name lookup could return multiple IP addresses, corresponding to mult