On 16/08/2012 12:24, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2012-08-16 7:12 AM, Ed W <li...@wildgooses.com> wrote:
My opinion is that this is very easily to implement in at least Postfix
and probably other servers, hence I would suggest this is a function for
the MTA, not for the Dovecot relay?
Well, true enough for simpler installations, but integrating something
like this in dovecot that can be applied across large dovecot director
based farms might be a good thing.
Actually, maybe (and maybe not, I honestly haven't thought this
through at all, and this might be a really dumb idea), instead of
specific support for this one feature, I wonder if it would make more
sense to actually build in support for a policy server (ie,
amavisd-new) like postfix has...
I'm really missing the key point here?
The proposal was (I think?): Have Dovecot accept emails and feed them to
the MTA (eg Postfix)
This means you have access to all the MTA features (hence why I was
pointing out these features exist today). Further, by centralising this
function you don't need to duplicate the functionality depending on
whether an email was sent via Dovecot or SMTP.
So I don't see that policy servers are necessary in Dovecot for this
particular requirement - I think most ideas we can come up with would
benefit from delegating policy to the MTA so that it's centralised?
I might be missing the point, so see above for my understanding of the
problem?
Ed W
