On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:42:50AM -0500, Alex Pennace wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:02:12AM +0100, Johan Almqvist wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:48:03PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
> > > [...] smtproutes is only for misconfigured
> > > hosts. Since everyone running qmtpd has a CLUE, nobody's going to
> > > misconfigure their hosts, right? Great, problem solved. :)
> > I definitely don't agree. There may be cases when I don't want the QMTP
> > port publicly announced (because I don't have, say, RBL checking and virus
> > scanning on it) but only between a few hosts that exchange a lot of mail.
> What are you not agreeing with? Russell stated that smtproutes was a
> kludge for hosts with strange or broken configurations. Your situation
> fits the criteria perfectly.
I don't agree with the concept of having to use SMTP between the "hosts
with strange or broken configurations". I want to use QMTP.
There are other situations: for some of the systems I administer, I have
no way of changing the dns data other than by writing a formal letter (on
paper, mind you) and waiting for over a month, praying that the admins
there will comply with my request. Now please, may I have qmtproutes?
Or even better, a general file, mailroutes:
foo.com:bar.com
propellerheads.org:192.168.1.12
my.propellerheads.org:192.168.1.15:2525
office.propellerheads.org:192.168.1.98:1234:smtp
mail.propellerheads.org:192.168.1.12:209:qmtp
(You get the idea, first three lines deliver by SMTP which is default...)
-Johan
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Johan Almqvist
