[Dovecot] Dovecot MSA -> Simple MTA -> MTA

[Reindl Harald]

Am 10.11.2013 01:29, schrieb Andrzej A. Filip:
> On 11/10/2013 12:59 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 10.11.2013 00:48, schrieb Andrzej A. Filip:
>>> On 11/08/2013 02:07 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>> So perhaps something like this could be done in time for Dovecot v2.4. Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions?
>>>
>>> Have you considered creating SMTP MSA (port 587) server as "step one"?
>>>
>>> Making dovecot itself handle SMTP AUTH may help to better integrate
>>> dovecot with a few more MTA servers.
>>
>> hardly - only in very small environments this could work
>>
>> everywhere else you have sender-dependent relay hosts, RCPT dependent relayhosts
>> and all sort of aliases which you *do not* want treated different between
>> incoming mail from outside or a internal server and submission mail
>>
>> the only real difference between submission is that it is authenticated
>> and because the authentication a few restrictions are not applied
>>
>> but in usual there is and must not be any difference in the mail-routing
>>
>> so no - make it complete or not at all
> 
> Would "simple MTA" make more sense to you?
> * MSA
> * sending out via smart host
> * accepting incoming from email gateway
> 
> It may make sense for organizations with geographically distributed
> branches

honestly having a new MTA makes no sense at all for me
it is hard to impossible to beat out postfix/exim these days

the unix principle is have one tool for one job and let work the tools together

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