[fetchmail-devel] Re: RFC: Patch to fix Berlios Bug #5849

[Sunil S. <sh...@bo...>]

Quoting from Matthias Andree's mail on Tue, Dec 13, 2005:
> Sunil Shetye <sh...@bo...> writes:
> 
> > $ fetchmail -v --lmtp --smtphost localhost/port,/this/socket/is/up
> >
> > where localhost is indeed meant to be an LMTP server.
> >
> > The situation gets worse if fetchmail sends a bounce message in
> > between!
> 
> One more thing: the whole LMTP implementation is a mess. Why would the
> kind of socket (UNIX vs. INET) determine if SMTP or LMTP is spoken by
> the service?

It looks like it is assumed that there are no SMTP UNIX sockets.

I think, it is even more complex to give the port and type with every
inet host and type with every unix socket. And there is no way of
specifying different smtp options (esmtpname, esmtppassword) per
smtphost.

This should be a TODO.

Any ideas, comments on this?

-- 
Sunil Shetye.