On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 12:05:00PM +0100, Robin Bowes wrote:
> Doug McClure wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a practical application where this is used?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Consider the following setup:
> 
>       Internet
>            |
>         Bastion
>          Host
>            |
>        ========= Firewall, eg Router doing NAT
>            |
>         Internal
>           Host
> 
> The bastion host has a mini-qmail installation; qmail-queue is replaced
> by qmail-qmqpc.  
> The internal host has a full qmail installation and also runs
> qmail-qmqpd
> 
> Incoming mail is received by qmail-smtpd on the bastion host and passed
> directly to the internal host using qmqp.

Right, but the question was about qmail-qmtpd, not qmail-qmqpd. I haven't yet
seen anything that implements sending mail by qmtp other than serialqmtp.

Chris

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