Re: [refpolicy] new policy for dkim-filter

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On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 17:32 +0200, Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 09:39 -0400, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 14:41 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > > On 14/09/09 14:01, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 16:18 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > > >> On 11/09/09 15:22, Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus wrote:
> > > >>> On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 08:30 -0400, Chris PeBenito wrote:
> > > >>>> On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 10:20 +0200, Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus wrote:
> > > >>>>>>>>>> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:40:56 +0200
> > > >>>>>>>>>> Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus<stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>   wrote:
> > > >>>>>>>>>>
> > > >>>>>>>>>>> Attached is a new policy for the dkim-filter application.
> > > >>>>>>>>>>>
> > > >>>>>>>>>>> Chris, is the policy OK/ready for merge?
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>> Tested attached policy again on CentOS 5.3 with strict policy.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> It looks ok.  However I'm starting to get concerned about the milter
> > > >>>> module getting big.  If you want, say the spamassassin milter, you add
> > > >>>> the milter module... but then you get rules for a several other milters
> > > >>>> too.
> > > >>
> > > >> True, but how much of a problem is that, given that any milter user is
> > > >> at least going to have also the sendmail/postfix policy and the mta
> > > >> policy too?
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps not.  But how many milters are there?  I don't want to get to
> > > > the point where there are 10-20 milters in the same module.
> > > 
> > > Having that many milters is quite conceivable:
> > > 
> > > https://www.milter.org/milters
> > > 
> > > >>> Attached is a milter version which behaves like the apache_template(). I
> > > >>> only took care of the dkim-milter but in general this would only mean
> > > >>> some reorganization of all modules ... nothing more. Any cons about
> > > >>> that?
> > > >>
> > > >> Splitting each milter out into its own module is certainly do-able;
> > > >> doesn't that add overhead (from having more modules) as well though?
> > > >
> > > > Only a little disk space and some memory during policy linking.  No
> > > > overhead for the final policy, which is what I'm concerned about.
> > > >
> > > >>> If this would be the right way then we could also talk about the
> > > >>> milter_template() naming convention:
> > > >>>
> > > >>> type $1_milter_t
> > > >>>
> > > >>> The apache_template generates slightly different type names:
> > > >>>
> > > >>> type httpd_$1_script_t
> > > >>>
> > > >>> What about changing $1_milter_t to milter_$1_t?
> > > >>
> > > >> That would make sense given that most types in refpolicy are prefixed
> > > >> with the module name. There would need to be typealiases added though
> > > >> for the old names for the benefit of existing users, wouldn't there?
> > > >
> > > > Yes.  But I'd prefer to keep the current naming convention.  I consider
> > > > the apache convention nonstandard.
> > > 
> > > Let's split each milter off into its own module then, leaving the type 
> > > names unchanged.
> > 
> > We'll do this for new milters.  The ones that are currently in the
> > milter module will stay for now, since its problematic moving types
> > between modules.
> 
> Attached is a policy for DKIM-Milter based on the latest changes. Works
> fine with the default milter policy.

Merged as dkim.  In the future please include a .if file, even if its
just the <summary> line.

-- 
Chris PeBenito
Tresys Technology, LLC
(410) 290-1411 x150


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