Michael T. Babcock writes: > 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). You *REALLY* don't understand the point of Qmail. Qmail is designed to be standards compliant, fast, reliable and secure. Your belief seems to be that the designer of Qmail only cared about reliability. That is demonstrably false, by DJB's own admission. Nothing in the design or implementation of Qmail was there ever consideration given to causing or preventing broken implementations of SMTP from crashing. They are broken, therefore they *should* crash. > 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. Now you have gone and changed the subject to secure e-mail. There is no such thing in the defined SMTP protocol. Security is an add-on and has nothing to do with Qmail. /Joe
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