On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:50:47AM +0200, Graham Leggett wrote:
> Henning Brauer wrote:
> > Nonsense. Pls understand qmail-ldap's clustering before giving such advices.
> > The destination server must understand _QMQP_ (3rd time I'm correcting this
> > today here. Ppl, is careful reading really that hard? It's clearly
> > documented that clustering works over QMQP, neither SMTP nor QMTP.)
> Is there any good reason why it only works on QMQP and not on SMTP?
QMQP is far more efficient for this kind of usage. Using SMTP makes no sense.
I consider this "having some different mailservers accepting mail for the
whole domain and one qmail-ldap host as dispatcher" a broken design. This is
by far better implemented with different hostnames (e. g.
sendmail.example.com, exchange.example.com, someotherbrokenmta.example.com)
and mailForwardingAddress attributes.
> Using the mailHost attribute with SMTP is the most logical assumption.
No. It's a misunderstanding.
> If I submitted a patch, would you consider it for inclusion?
That's up to Andre, but I wouldn't.
A quote comes to my mind:
"If you want a bloated MTA whoms author happily includes every patch sent to
him, use Exim."
(Felix von Leitner on the qmail list)
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