Re: Delivery to a websocket gateway

2010-11-08 Thread Liam
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > The same Postfix program implements SMTP and LMTP. > I concluded that the best way to learn the protocol is to write a server shell that prints its inputs and replies OK to everything :-) I'm also pondering use of an MQ engine between the

Re: Delivery to a websocket gateway

2010-11-07 Thread Liam
You mean read RFCs for SMTP, ESMTP, LMTP and diff them :-P On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Sahil Tandon wrote: > On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 10:58:20 -0800, Liam wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Wietse Venema > wrote: > > > > > - LMTP has one END-OF-DATA

Re: Delivery to a websocket gateway

2010-11-07 Thread Liam
Thanks for your help in sorting this out, Wietse. On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > > I can support per-node domains, e.g. node-id.mailhost.xyz > I suppose some wild-card DNS record will do the trick. > So that all those node domains resolve MX to my proxy? > The non-opti

Re: Delivery to a websocket gateway

2010-11-07 Thread Liam
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > - LMTP has one END-OF-DATA status per recipient, instead of just one > status for the entire mail transaction. > OK, I need per-recipient status, so LMTP is indeed the right protocol. Is it missing any minor features from SMTP that I'm lik

Re: Delivery to a websocket gateway

2010-11-07 Thread Liam
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > It sounds like you will be sending all mail to the same outbound > proxy, meaning that Postfix has no clue what destinations are up > and what are down, because that is hidden by your outbound proxy > I can support per-node domains, e.g. no

Re: Delivery to a websocket gateway

2010-11-07 Thread Liam
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: Jeroen, thanks for your comments. Websocket is a new protocol to enable persistent, full-duplex, efficient > connections to web servers. > > However, it is just HTTP, right ? > Websockets are HTTP-initiated, but messages passed after initia

Re: Delivery to a websocket gateway

2010-11-07 Thread Liam
of queue id's for all my nodes, there will be a LOT of rather short lists. Is that likely to cause problems? I'd like to avoid implementing a queue manager, at least in the near term! :-) Liam

Re: Delivery to a websocket gateway

2010-11-07 Thread Liam
I'd like to request a little more benefit of the doubt, gentlemen... :-) I need to send messages (many from ordinary email sources) on an IP WAN with unreliable connections to/from nodes whose IPs may vary from session to session. This is part of a larger application that I can't discuss publicly.

Re: Delivery to a websocket gateway

2010-11-06 Thread Liam
ing messages over a single connection, otherwise the number of concurrent connections would exceed what's practical. Liam

Delivery to a websocket gateway

2010-11-06 Thread Liam
efficient to poke postfix when a client connects whom I know has messages pending (due to a previous delivery attempt). Liam