On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Andy Bradford wrote:
> Thus said Ricardo Cerqueira on Sun, 07 Jan 2001 01:50:16 GMT:
>
> > Hmmm... OK, disregard my previous mail.
> > Personally, I'd rather have one file for SMTP, and another for QMTP. Does
> > anyone else here agree with me?
>
> This seems more logical to me as it allows finer control over the
> entire system. Oh well, I suppose it isn't critical as qmail-remote
> will just have to determine which to use by probing I guess---unless of
> course it is accompanied by a port number on which QMTP runs.
the difficulty with two files is precidence... if you have files like
this:
smtproutes:
.com:mail-relay1.internal
mail.example.com:mail-relay1.internal
qmtproutes:
:mail-relay2.internal
example.com:mail-relay2.internal
mail.example.com:mail-relay2.internal
then you have to read the files at the same time to determine which route
to use; what do you do if you have two entries for the same domain in both
files -> which one takes priority? would you notice mail.example.com
appears in both files?
Added complexity makes for more bugs.
RjL
