>Number:         15097
>Category:       admin
>Synopsis:       The gnats mail submission engine should be more robust
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    netbsd-admin
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Dec 29 16:14:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Todd Vierling
>Release:        N/A
>Organization:
	duh.org: Pointing out the obvious since 1994.

>Environment:
	N/A

>Description:

There's a lot of spam collecting in the GNATS system, because the GNATS
submission engine is far too lenient.  GNATS will accept any message, and
if it does not match a known PR, a new PR will be created with category
"pending", severity "serious", and priority "medium".

>How-To-Repeat:

Send a random e-mail to gnats-bugs@netbsd.org containing anything but a PR
or PR number.

>Fix:

Perhaps there's patches to GNATS out there that will cause it to bounce
mail which is not a valid PR form and which does not refer to a known PR?
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: