[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:
Norman,
I admit I am not an SMTP guru, so I'm open to accepting that my idea
doesn't make sense. Before I do that though, could you explain to me why
you think that Apache James should resolve addresses differently when
configured as a gateway than how it resolves addresses when connecting
directly to the e-mail destination server? Both email servers are SMTP
servers...
Well, apache has 2 way to find the SMTP server for a given domain:
1) MX lookup
2) use of a given gateway
The result is 1 or more SMTP servers to connect to.
If you think this makes sense, can you point to other smtp servers that
provides the behaviour you have described?
My company has many mail servers and they expect people communicating
with their servers to follow the SMTP RFC best practices. This means
that they have multiple MX records for a domain that indicates multiple
servers that are capable of handling mail. If I don't rely on the MX
records when resolving the address, but rather pick a one or more
corporate mail servers to connect to from my SMTP server (configured as
a gateway), then I have to manually ensure that I keep my mail server
addresses synchronized with the MX configuration.
Am I making sense here? Am I crazy? I'm starting to feel crazy...
You are not using MX servers for a given domain because your are using
them as relay servers: you will have anyway to ensure manual
synchronization because no one guarantee that every MX server for a
given domain will be also able to be a relay server for your server IP
address.
E.g: Often smtp gateways require authorization and a change in the
domain mx addresses would result in your smtpserver to automatically
connect to new servers with no control from you and you would submit
login/pass and all your mail to a new server without having decided it.
IMHO this feature is wrong and may result in completely unexpected
results to our users. I suggest you to write your own extension to
RemoteDelivery mailet for your very specific need.
Users, is there anyone else that would need such a feature?
Other James developers, do you share my concern about this issue?
Stefano
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