On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Dan Melomedman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 09:56:04PM +0200, Przemyslaw Wegrzyn wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Erich Schubert wrote:
> >
*SNIP*
> > AFAIK it supports LDAP for authentication and aliases, only... :|
> >
> > -=Czaj-nick=-
>
> I haven't used it, but according to Mr. Sam it was developed because
> Qmail wasn't enough. For example Qmail accepts messages to non-existing
> users, then bounces. Why?
I believe that's the RFC spec for SMTP delivery. Accept all mail, then
bounce. Badrcptto can work wonders if you're having that bad of a
problem.
> Also Qmail isn't smart enough to deliver one
> message to a domain with many recipients instead of many copies of the
> same message. I guess Courier is the next big thing in open MTAs.
> But why would I choose Courier or Qmail if I am some huge ISP for instance?
> Huge ISPs require much more scalable models than
> run-a-bunch-of-processes-per-connection servers.
How huge are you talking? Two years ago I read a white paper about
hacking LDAP into some mainstream MTA, then was used to support 2
million+ accounts. That was 2 years ago... PC based hardware has came a
long way in that time, and that's what they were using.
> I wish to see a good multi-threaded open MTA in the future.
> Is it too much to ask for?
>
*SHRUG* I don't have any problems with qmail-ldap's model. It maybe fork
heavy, depending on how you look at it, but no more then sendmail, if that
much.
