Re: orbs.org accuses qmail of mailbomb relaying!

[Michael T. Babcock]

Ok then, on an honest note, the point would then be to have an MTA regulate its
incoming connections in an 'intelligent' manner so as to allow mail to actually
get through from non-qmail MTAs within a reasonable time frame?  If I allow 20
simultaneous connections (hypothetically) and mail is delivered from 5 different
hosts at once, two of which are running qmail with mailing lists, odds are that
the other three hosts won't be able to connect and may bounce the message back
to the sender because the qmail sites used all my connections.

Is this correct?

Jon Rust wrote:

> > To be friendly to your neighbours ...
>
> Why is the onus on qmail here? If I'm an MTA dropping off mail to
> another MTA, I'm going to send the mail as fast as the other MTA accepts
> it. If Other MTA needs to slow it down, it should do so. There's no
> reason for me to make assumptions about how many SMTP connections and
> messages I can send to another MTA.