Henning Brauer wrote:
> Netscape Whatever != internet mail.
Of course it is. What a silly statement.
> > ...and I am arguing that doing this over QMQP is the wrong approach in
> > my case.
>
> It is NOT. smtp has to many disadvantages for this kind of usage.
And you have as yet to give me a compelling disadvantage. You have only
said "QMQP is better", which IMNSHO is not a good enough reason.
> There is a very valid reason for not doinf so: bloating the codebase without
> a reason.
I would seriously doubt the codebase would be increased by more than a
few lines of code. Far far fewer lines than the bloat caused by
maintaining an entire new protocol. Fortunately that new protocol has
performance advantages, and is also optional, so the bloat is
acceptable.
> Andre maintains the main qmail-ldap patch, not me. I would not include such
> a patch.
Then why did you suggest I write code?
The most frustrating part of this exercise is that your are convinced I
am wrong, and you are trying everything in your power to stop me from
implementing my solution. If you don't agree it's the right way of doing
it then feel free not to implement it in your mail systems. By please
don't be obstructionist by stopping what I need to do without giving a
good reason for it (such as "security risk").
> Nonsense. IP-based access control via tcpserver as you (hopefully) do for
> nearly any service.
How on earth do you provide tcpserver IP based access control to people
dialling in via public dialup hmmm? All the open ports are SSL/TLS
protected - no network is trusted *anywhere*. (And these mailservers are
not acting as mail relays, local ISP relays are used for that) As a
result adding such IP based protection is open to mistakes, adds
adminstrative burden, which adds time, which has to be paid for by
someone - me.
> > In the mean time SMTP may be less performance,
> > but it works and is secure.
>
> Nonsense. It adds an uneeded overhead.
So far this "overhead" represents a few extra lines of code. Some
overhead.
Regards,
Graham
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