[hashcash] Re: Procmail Problem

Apologies for not replying sooner, unavoidable work commitments getting
in the way.

I applied your fix to hashcash.c and rebuilt the rpm from source.  It
now seems to be working fine.  Thanks very much Adam.

Steve


On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 06:37:44PM -0500, Adam Back wrote:
> It appears to be hashcash itself, there is something wrong with the -p
> 1d when checking at the same time.  It basically purges and then exits
> succcess! without even looking at the stamp.
> 
> As a work around you could do: 
> 
> hashcash -p 1d -f hashcash.db && hashcash -cqXd -b24 -f 
> $HOME/hashcash/hashcash.db -r testing
> 
> the fix is simple add this:
> 
>     } else { 
>       ret = 1; 
>     }
> 
> to hashcash.c 1199 instead of
> 
>     }
> 
> I'll put this fix into the next release plus Jonathan's fix for PPC
> bug Hal reported.
> 
> Adam
> 
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 09:20:46PM +0000, Steve Crook wrote:
> > Since upgrading to hashcash-1.16, I've become aware of an issue with
> > hashcash not validating the token when executed through procmail.
> > Unfortunately I upgraded from v1.13 so I'm not exactly sure when the
> > problem was introduced, or even if it is a hashcash problem or something
> > else.
> > 
> > Procmail Recipe:
> > :0
> > * ^X-Hashcash:
> > * $? hashcash -cqXdp 1d -b24 -f $HOME/hashcash/hashcash.db -r testing
> > | ~mail2news/bin/multipost
> > 
> > When I fire an Email through this recipe, I get the following log:
> > procmail: Match on "^X-Hashcash:"
> > procmail: Executing 
> > "hashcash,-cqXdp,1d,-b24,-f,/home/mail2news/hashcash/hashcash.db,-r,testing"
> > procmail: Match on "hashcash -cqXdp 1d -b24 -f 
> > /home/mail2news/hashcash/hashcash.db -r testing"
> > procmail: Executing " ~mail2news/bin/multipost"
> > 
> > The Hashcash header on the Email is:
> > X-Hashcash: foobar
> > 
> > Nothing is logged in the hashcash.db for this message, which suggests
> > that hashcash rejects the invalid header, but the procmail action is
> > executed.  Any suggestions what might be causing this?

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