Thomas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Aaron Stone wrote: >> Thomas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > Paul J Stevens wrote: >> >> Access to /bin/sh is required for opening a pipe (3). Of course we could >> >> redesign the forwarding and notification code to use smtp for sending >> >> messages, but that seems like a bit of overkill at the moment. >> > >> > The lmtpd code can't be extended for that task? The shouldn't be a big >> > difference I think? But that's not too important yes. >> >> Outgoing SMTP is a very different game than any incoming protocol. > > dbmail* shouldn't do the outgoing delivery (that's the job of my MTA), > but instead of calling /usr/sbin/sendmail it could deliver to > localhost:25 ?
Exactly. That's outgoing SMTP. There actually isn't any difference in delivering mail to localhost:25 or otherhost:25 or even using any number of intermediate gateways and relays in between. It is because of this transparency that we have to jump through so many hoops to secure our mail systems thesedays! But relaying from localhost is almost always allowed, and anybody with a larger mail system should know what to do anyways ;-) Aaron
