Re: qmail remote delivery logic

[Frederik Lindberg]

On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Bruce Guenter wrote:

> nullmailer can indeed use QMTP to smarthosts that support it, but it
> explicitly has no support for local delivery.  You could set up qmail
> and nullmailer concurently and have qmail deliver all remote mail into a
> virtual domain that calls up nullmailer to transfer it.

The problem would be that qmail would deliver one message per remote
recipient, so there is little gain (except QMTP < SMTP overhead). Would it
be hard to put hooks into nullmailer to support local delivery via
qmail-local?

-Sincerely, Fred

Fred Lindberg, Inf. Dis., WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA