[Dovecot] vpopmail

[John Peacock]

Matthias Andree wrote:
> Because that's the only thing the decrepit qmail handles. Any modern MTA
> has evolved quite far from that point. No matter if you prefer Postfix,
> Exim, Courier, Sendmail or something else but qmail...

Your criticism of qmail is off-topic for this list, and quite besides 
the point of the original posters question, which I will restate below 
without mention of qmail:

> The current setup:
> - Pine configured to send mail via localhost (MTA)
> - MTA on localhost send mail to SMTP server
> - SMTP server allow/reject connections based on POP-before-SMTP
> - SMTP server performs spam and virus checks

This isn't that unreasonable a setup - because the laptop may not be 
connected at all times, he wants to have a local MTA on the laptop to 
deposit mail into while offline.  That MTA is configured to relay all 
mail via his primary MTA, which scans incoming/outgoing mail and 
delivers it to the appropriate remote MTA.  As such, whether he is 
running postfix or qmail (or Sendmail) *on the laptop*, he wanted to 
know why POP-before-SMTP broke on his primary server.

It's not that I disagree with you that POP-before-SMTP is suboptimal and 
should be replaced with AUTH; it's that you are being such an a$$h0le in 
your anti-qmail fervor, that any wisdom you may be imparting is lost in 
the vitriol.

John

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