On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 06:31:03PM -0500, Chris Garrigues wrote:
> >
> > netstat -a |fgrep '*:qmtp'
> >
> > or the low-level C equivalent.
>
> I'm not concerned with this. I'm concerned with Fred's proposal
> relying on the status of the remote smtp and qmtp server. If I'm
> "local" and someone else is "remote" and remote's qmtp service is
> down, but remote's smtp server is still advertising qmtp then I
> shouldn't have my queue grow because of it. There should be some
I think Chris' point was the remote SMTP server monitors the state of the
remote qmtp socket/listener on itself. if there is something listening on
the QMTP port isn't it fairly reasonable for qmail-smtpd to
[configureabley] assume it's qmail-qmtpd ?
Richard
