On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Ian Eiloart <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I do like the concept to "avoid the need for administrators to learn >> the differences between LMTP and PRDR" because not having to learn >> something new makes my job easier. The reason for forbidding LMTP >> outside of the LAN is apparently to prevent duplicates, but the >> thought process at the time apparently was that the sending system >> doesn't have a queue (the main use case of LMTP). > > Oh, I thought the purpose was for when the receiving system doesn't have a > queue. LMTP does allow 4xx temporary rejections. I don't know what the > sender is supposed to do if it doesn't have a queue. Our mail system uses > LMTP to do final delivery into Cyrus mailstores - they don't have queues. You are correct. Receiving system without a queue -- Regards... Todd I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. -- Marcus Aurealius -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
