Michael Monnerie wrote: > On Samstag, 16. Dezember 2006 11:27 Paul J Stevens wrote: >> Michael, why not use the MTA to do this? Postfix is very good at this >> stuff, and I'm sure other mta's have similar capabilities. > > Yes I did now, but I consider this a hack. It's the mailserver that > should know about it's recipients, not the MTA. The border is clear > here, postfix versus dbmail.
Well, some of us will disagree there. The recipient MTA should also know about recipients. > > Why should we fix something at the MTA, when the mailserver really could > and should do it himself? After all, it's dbmail who has all the > information. Because thats what being an MTA is all about: routing email to users. > > The MTA should only have to request if a user and/or domain exists, and > send it to the mailserver. The rewriting should be in there, as is the > information about real users etc. That's *not* common practice. Afaik, mailservers such as cyrus do no address->user resolving at all! -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
