Re: orbs.org accuses qmail of mailbomb relaying!

[Michael T. Babcock]

You've just missed a point of Qmail though.  If a major point of Qmail's existence is
to provide reliable E-mail delivery, then this _must_ include cooperating with other
MTAs (without violating standards) at least enough to keep from crashing / giving
them headaches so that we don't 'encourage' them to lose mail ... (through failures
of their own).

If we're the 'intelligent' ones and the secure ones, we should probably be working
around their failures where we can, to keep _mail_ secure, not just mail on Qmail
servers.

Adam McKenna wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 11:17:32AM -0400, Michael T. Babcock wrote:
> > And DJB has already proposed other protocol solutions that don't handle this
> > issue either.  That said, your comment is moot.  SMTP has lots of problems, why
> > _not_ solve them?
>
> This isn't a problem with SMTP -- It's a problem with MTA's that don't handle
> lots of incoming connections very well.  The fact that a majority of people
> on the Internet are running such MTA's is not a concern of mine and it
> shouldn't be a concern of Dan's.  If they want better connection handling,
> they should either request the feature in sendmail or upgrade to something
> better.
>
> --Adam