mouss: > Victor Duchovni a ?crit : > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 03:31:52AM +0100, mouss wrote: > > > >> Victor Duchovni a ?crit : > >>> [snip] > >>> Why per-recipient transport lookups? Often better to rewrite to a domain > >>> where the entire domain is handled by lmtp(8). > >>> > >> is there a benefit in avoiding per recipient transports? > > > > Simplicity, also reduces temptation to do LDAP or SQL transport lookups, > > unfortunately, this is exactly what I want to do: put everything in *sql > to ease mgmt. of course, it is possible to dump the sql data, but I am > talking about a web UI where I'd prefer the web app no have any > privileges. I guess a cron (to dump data) is the best I can do if I > don't want to write an "update" daemon?
High-latency maps such as LDAP and SQL are OK for smtpd or cleanup (because these processes run in parallel) but not trivial-rewrite (because there is only one qmgr). This applies not only to transport maps but also to maps that define address classes. Wietse