Re: Bug#155576: To hack or not to hack
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 07:34:32PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> It is still sent from one program to another, of course, but it is done over
> a pipe, rather than over a TCP connection. This eliminates an entire class
> of bothersome problems, such as network security and access control, and
> should also perform better.
You realize of course, that only connections from localhost are
accepted, seeing it only binds to localhost (or this is a bug
otherwise)?
> Clearly, a network solution has advantages (for example, if you want to send
> the message to a faster machine for scanning a high volume of mail), but for
> a simple one-machine configuration it is less preferable in my opinion.
>
> Maybe the rationale for SMTP is that it is supported by all MTAs. But in
The rationale, IMHO is:
- easier to maintain for up-to-date MTAs.
- no need for MTA to execute seperate program that pipes data to
amavisd and receives result.
- faster performance as a result of the above.
- distributed setup.
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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