Re: any comment on this line

2000-10-24 Thread Brett Randall 

 "Yamin" == Yamin Prabudy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
snipped everything

Please read the archives or we may have to shoot you. They are there
for a reason.

http://www-archive.ornl.gov:8000/
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Re: any comment on this line

2000-10-24 Thread Andy Bradford 

Thus said "Yamin Prabudy" on Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:31:42 +0700:

 My friend forwad it to me from http://www.orbs.org/otherresource.html

The URL is actually:

http://www.orbs.org/otherresources.html

I suggest you read it and then take your pick which you want to use...  
When qmail is configured properly you will have no problems just as the 
blurb says, however, it can produce bad results just like any other piece 
of misconfigured software.  If you follow the directions for 
installation at http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html you shouldn't 
have any problems.  Tell your friend he is misinformed...

Andy
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Re: any comment on this line

2000-10-24 Thread Dave Sill 

"Yamin Prabudy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

ORBS sez:
... As ! is
a standard network addressing indicator, this can only be charitably
described as yet another Qmail bug.

qmail's handling of !'s in not in violation of any of the mail RFC's.

Qmail is extremely network unfriendly
and has been known to cause effective denial of service attacks on other
mailservers in its enthusiasm to deliver as many messages as possible in a
short period of time. For this reason it is best reserved for mailing list
server purposes only.

This is great. Let me paraphrase:

  "qmail is overzealous when delivering lots of messages to lots to
  users. Therefore, it should be used on mailing list servers, where
  this problem is most pronounced."

Does that make *any* sense, even if you buy the premise? No. It's
exactly backward. If qmail's rapid delivery rate is a problem, the
*last* place you want it is a mailing list server where a single
message multiples into hundreds or thousands of deliveries.

I use qmail with a concurrencyremote of 500 on my list server, and in
almost five years of service I have not received a single complaint.

-Dave