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