On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 03:15:37PM -0700, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > > On Jun 18, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > > >>Can you rewrite this to be a plugin? > > > >Yes. But are you sure it's necessary to split it? Given that > >nothing happens > >unless users create ~/.preforward files, I'd say it's quite harmless. > > Just to explain "the policy": > > The trouble is that as soon as we put something like that in the core > someone else would like some other way to look for the .preforward > file and then someone would like it to use LDAP or SQL and soon > enough we are patching the core left and right. > > The reason qpsmtpd is, relatively, so popular is that you can "hack > on it" by making simple plugins so we can have an extremely flexible > system without having a big crufty core system. > > We try to only add new things to the core that supports new plugins > (like your patch).
Ok. Not a big concern for me. But I do hope that if this feature becomes more popular in the future, you reconsider making it default. -- Robert Millan
