* Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> [2011-12-07 17:20]:
> Yes it was. I point the attention to the RIGHT problem, which is
> fixing the suboptimal configuration that does domain queries from
> SQL.
Hi,
with all due respect but for me the important thing at the moment
would be to understand why it works the way it works. I understand
that it is apparently not the "right" way to do it but to be honest
there is not a lot information to point that out.
* There is no information regarding this limitation in trivial-rewrite(8),
MYSQL_README or mysql_table(5). Maybe it's somewhere else where I
did not find it.
* Every setup guide or how-to regarding MySQL and postfix that I
found set up the domain alias table and domain table in
MySQL. So people are using it.
* Doing a Google Search for "virtual_mailbox_domains = proxy:mysql:"
returns 74k results, "virtual_mailbox_domains = mysql:" returns 41k
results. So there are probably a few people using it.
* From my standpoint it makes no sense to have everything in a central
database and then leave out the domain and domain alias tables. (But
that is debatable)
* SMTP is not realtime messaging but customers/users nowadays expect that the
configuration gets active at the same time they enter it into
the system. If you can't provide that they go elsewere.
I really would like to know if it is not possible to have a temporary
error when trivial-rewrite fails to access the MySQL database. I don't
see any apparent reason for it. If there is one I would like to know.
Last but not least I would really appreciate it if that capability
would be added (make it optional by all means). I think that at least
a few people would benefit from it.
Regards,
Sebastian
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