Words by Mário Gamito [Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 06:26:30PM +0100]: > Hi, > > I've written a series of articles in my blog called "understanding qmail". > > If you think they may help someone, I'd appreciate your vote in Digg. > > http://digg.com/linux_unix/understanding_qmail >
Of course I'll vote. Just to broaden the universe of who you make an ass of yourself to. The articles are sprinkled with errors as I already mentioned to you personally and as comments on your blog. The later where removed without even bothering to correct as pointed. Just a few examples (have only read up to part 3): - qmail-smtpd (as in qmail vanilla) does no message analysis. Unless byte counting counts as analysis. It does some checking of the envelope, that's what you mean? - control/rcpthosts is of no use to qmail-send. - "qmail-send ... next, it will start one of two processes for message delivery: qmail-lspawn for the local server or qmail-rspwan for a remote one.". I don't really think start is the right word. - actually qmail-clean also cleans queue of messages sent with success (and preprocessed envelopes for that matter). - control/locals specifies domains not addresses. - control/defaultdomain, not vagely uncorrectly defined e-mail addresses, just addresses missing a '.' on the host part. - You mean that if I send you an e-mail to gamito it will read defaultdomain, add the domain and send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] So can I log to the server and use qmail-inject? - Wildcards on control/badmailfrom? What wildcards? - There's no such thing as control/badmailto on (vanilla) qmail. - control/bouncefrom, you must mean *from* which. - control/smtproutes, bad example, awful example: IP addresses must be enclosed in [square] brackets. - "timeoutsmtpd: it specifies the amount of time (in number of seconds) qmail-smtpd waits to receive a buffer from the remote server." Hmm, and how is that suposed to happen? The receiving of the buffer I mean. -- Jose Celestino ---------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.msversus.org/ ; http://techp.org/petition/show/1 http://www.vinc17.org/noswpat.en.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- "And on the trillionth day, Man created Gods." -- Thomas D. Pate
