NO !!
I can't use mailForwardingAddress ldap attribute because all my server use
the same ldap
and of course the last server (the good one) have to record the mail and no
forward it.
you only have simple solutions in books...
IRL you have situations like mine where you have to make a mailservers
migration
and so I will have to use qmailservers and netscape server for 6 months or
more.
so I'd like one qmail server to reroute mail following the ldap "mailhost"
attribute to the good server
even if it is a netscape one, so using SMTP and no QMQP because netscape
can't use that protocol.
but doesn't looks be able to do that.
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Henning Brauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Envoy� : jeudi 16 ao�t 2001 15:11
� : qmail-ldap @ argus . pipeline . ch
Objet : Re: how to use mailhost field ?
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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