On Oct 18, 2009, at 3:16 AM, Jean-Pierre van Melis wrote: >> First, suggestion, turn off the bug in qmail, it is not the place >> for it, if you want it, look to make a filter in ASSP that does this. > > I think you have to get back to the basics... > > First of all qmail's behavior is NOT a bug. That message is not > according to specs. Even repairing the message by a mailer is > explicitly mentioned as bad behavior.
I disagree, I am not calling bare lf rejection a bug. I am calling qmails behavior to temp reject, and not perm reject, a bug, which it clearly is, as per rfc. > The sender has a bug, so (optionally) refusing these mails in ASSP > is a good idea. One should stop a malformed message as early in the > chain as possible... You will be whitelisting a lot of hosts. > Another mailer in the chain could accept the message and later on a > mailer doesn't. The only way to inform the sender is through a NDR > which may create backscatter.... Yes, another concern, to me, making it better to just accept it. > The only "misconfiguration" on qmail is that it doesn't have > extensive logging. Something which hasn't been necessary for 7 years. I am near certain you could get it to log, there is a bug, it should not return temp failure for something that has no chance of recovery. -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Assp-test mailing list Assp-test@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-test
