Kyle Brantley wrote:
First off, I'll ask: would adding an SMTP server (relay, the works, so an MTA more accurately) be beyond the scope of dbmail completly? Or rather, is dbmail being developed with 100% reliance on other MTAs and no future plans of having it's own MTA built-in?
The only reasons I can see to do this would be licensing problems or simplifying distribution and installation. As far as I know, of the popular open source MTAs, only qmail would have problems with bundling since it has no license.
I can see the case for offering a bundled solution with both dbmail and the MTA in a single package, post-install scripts, the works. It would mean more work synchronizing versions, but the end result would be improved ease-of-use.
But I see no point in writing an MTA from scratch when there are several viable options out there already. I'm very happy with Postfix. And yes, the protocols seem simple, but these MTAs have man-years of effort behind them, and there's a reason for that.
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