Re: QMQP may eat your mail and its bounces

[Alex Pennace]

On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 02:09:17AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Sep 2001, Alex Pennace wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:10:37PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > > 2. kill the postmaster aliases, we're sure that the smarthost has a
> > >    postmaster and proper virtual mapping and will catch the mail.
> > 
> > This is a grave misconfiguration.
> 
> NO

Like it all not, qmail needs at least a "stub" hostname it can
consider local.

After napping on the issue, however, I've concluded that this remains
a problem: what if postmaster is forwarded to a remote host, as is the
case sometimes.

> See my other mails for more information, particularly is qmail-send
> trusting qmail-qmqpd to inject proper mail, but qmail-qmqpd can inject
> mail without the terminating LF. qmail-inject does not. qmail-smtpd
> cannot.

qmail-send only trusts qmail-queue, which is one way to check for
proper mail.