Mark Mentovai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>qmail-send's behavior for remote deliveries (which includes how it deals
>with qmail-rspawn and qmail-remote) is something that's bothered me for a
>while. The system really should manage remote deliveries better. At
>present, we have one SMTP connection per remote address. This should at
>least be modified to give one SMTP connection for each remote mail server
>that needs to be contacted for any given message. The ideal case would
>allow for a limited number of SMTP connections (to allow for parallel
>delivery) to any remote host at any given time, and the capability to
>transfer multiple messages in a single SMTP session.
What you want, apparently, is Postfix. See www.postfix.org.
>There's a difference between being the target of a denial-of-service attack
>and being involved in one as a tool used by an attacker. As participants on
>the public Internet, we have to be willing to acknowledge our own
>susceptibility to being targets, and take measures to handle them as our
>personal or organizational requirements dictate. We must not be willing to
>promote abusive activities by knowingly supporting, directly or indirectly,
>bad practices.
Do you have any evidence that qmail has been used in this manner? If
so, present it. Otherwise, this is a tempest in a teapot.
-Dave
