Am 10.11.2013 01:29, schrieb Andrzej A. Filip: > On 11/10/2013 12:59 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> >> Am 10.11.2013 00:48, schrieb Andrzej A. Filip: >>> On 11/08/2013 02:07 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: >>>> [...] >>>> So perhaps something like this could be done in time for Dovecot v2.4. Any >>>> thoughts/ideas/suggestions? >>> >>> Have you considered creating SMTP MSA (port 587) server as "step one"? >>> >>> Making dovecot itself handle SMTP AUTH may help to better integrate >>> dovecot with a few more MTA servers. >> >> hardly - only in very small environments this could work >> >> everywhere else you have sender-dependent relay hosts, RCPT dependent >> relayhosts >> and all sort of aliases which you *do not* want treated different between >> incoming mail from outside or a internal server and submission mail >> >> the only real difference between submission is that it is authenticated >> and because the authentication a few restrictions are not applied >> >> but in usual there is and must not be any difference in the mail-routing >> >> so no - make it complete or not at all > > Would "simple MTA" make more sense to you? > * MSA > * sending out via smart host > * accepting incoming from email gateway > > It may make sense for organizations with geographically distributed > branches
honestly having a new MTA makes no sense at all for me it is hard to impossible to beat out postfix/exim these days the unix principle is have one tool for one job and let work the tools together
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