"Ihnen, David" wrote:
>
> > Still, I don't know how could qmail-inject(qmail-remote) and sendmail
> > send msgs to other hosts without connecting to port 25...
>
> A couple of possiblities:
>
> qmail-inject does not connect to anything - it uses qmail-queue to insert a
> message into the qmail queue. It must be run on the machine that is running
> qmail.
>
> qmail-remote - introduced if a message is in queue and is not being
> delivered locally - connects to a remote mail service and transmits the
> message.
>
> TO OTHER HOSTS - yes, a remote transfer must take place.
>
> TO ENTER MAIL SYSTEM - no. If there is a mail system running on the current
> machine, there is no need whatsoever to use a remote connection to get it
> into the mail system.
Well, if it called qmail-remote then the msg is to be sent remotely. Or
qmail-send would call qmail-lspawn which would give it to qmail-local.
What do you mean for 'mail system'?
>
> ---
> And if you want to be technical, you don't have to run your
> remote-connectable mail server on port 25, if the servers transmitting to it
> are informed...
Then you would be able to send msgs only to those informed. If you want
to be able to send msg to virtually everyone in the net you should use
SMTP.
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