Re: Spearate Gnats and Mail Servers?

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 14:35 06.06.01 +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi.  I want to setup Gnats and Gnatsweb.  I have done it once before
> when our company mail and web-servers were the same machine.  Now they
> are different, so am having some difficultly understanding the role of
> gnatsd for submitting problems.
>
> Is it possible to have the gnat's aliases and client utilities
> (queue-pr) on the mailserver, and have these utilities contact gnatsd on
> the internal gnats/web server?

What you need is for queue-pr to have facilities for speaking to a remote 
gnatsd. GNATS 3 cannot do that, but this is precisely one of the new 
features of GNATS 4. Indeed, one of the main areas of change for version 4 
has been a vastly increased focus on remote access, obviating the need for 
a lot of the communications that is done by e-mail in version 3.

Version 4 is not quite ready, but once the current queue of 4-5 patches are 
committed, it is in good shape, and should be very usable. Unfortunately, 
the docs for version 4 aren't ready yet, but I am working on them and I 
hope to have a usable version of them by the end of June. If the system 
you're implementing isn't needed right away, I suggest you wait for GNATS 4.

Yngve Svendsen
Gnatsweb maintainer