Simon Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Tim Legant wrote:
> > 
> > I'm not sure I understand what you want to do here.
> 
> ... it would do the same as tofmipd, but do it at the far
> end of mail sending not go between client and SMTP server.

Got it.

> I see the problem (one of) is mapping outgoing mail address to
> Unix user, tofmipd does that by making them authenticate, I just
> wasn't over keen at more software between me and my MTA.

Ah.  Well, that's the core Unix philosophy.  Think of tmda-ofmipd as a
proxy, a common tool in the Unix toolbox.

> The documentation is a little vague on /etc/tofmipd, seems even
> if you authenticate against IMAP or similar you still need the
> file, with correct permissions, with nothing in.

I noticed that in the code a few days ago.  I don't know why that is.
Perhaps when Jason comes back he can address this.

> As Python binds straight to Berkeley sockets "-p :port" seems to
> listen on all interfaces. Might this be worth adding to the
> online help, or is this obvious to everyone but me?

I don't think it's obvious.  I'm not even sure it's a documented part
of the Python interface; it might just accidently work.  If we want to
document this for tmda-ofmipd, we'd probably want to make it explicit
in our code that a missing 'host' means bind to 0.0.0.0.

> I just wondered if there was a quick and dirty way to integrate with
> Postfix for a very scalable solution, not that I need a very
> scalable solution today, as it is just me for the moment.

I can't think of anything off the top of my head.  As we work at
refactoring lots of the TMDA code into separate modules and libraries,
we may reach a place where simple Python scripts can be written to use
various parts of TMDA's functionality.  At that point, it might be
possible to construct a script that would be specific to a particular
MTA and fit into the chain at arbitrary points.

This isn't a big goal of the re-structuring effort, but might be a
consequence of it.  No promises :)


Tim
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