On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 13:51 -0700, JT Moree wrote: > > Why not just install qmail ? > > In my case I am exploring new email architectures. We have need of an > email archiving system. My goal is to use a plugin in qpsmtpd. I want
I saw archiving done 10 years ago using sendmail. Hardly new. > to use cyrus imap for the MDA. We use qpsmtpd to run virus filters. I > also want to run qpsmtpd on ports 80, 587, 465, and 25. postfix or Me too. It already does that. > qmail would be the MTA sitting in the middle of all this. > > It seems like a decent idea to cut out postfix or qmail if possible so > as to run and maintain one less subsystem. One less subsystem ? Replacing either qmail or postfix with something interpreted will use more system resources not less. > > You might recognize the SMTPS and ESMTP ports in my list. Are those > going to be difficult with qpsmtpd? are there plugins to handle it? AFAIK, yes. [ I didn't read the list ... I haven't been following all the details of this. I just wanted to point out that writing an MTA is a much bigger job than replacing a component of an existing one, which is what qpsmtpd does (mostly). ]. -- --gh
