Stefan Hornburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 4 May 2004 13:10:19 +0200 > "Julian Mehnle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Phillip Hutchings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> [ ... ] >> >> Please stop these b0rken analogies, this is ridiculous. >> >> > The point is the standard is the standard
But as I mentioned before, the RFC 974 standards document specifically recommends that the mail agent try all the MX records in order of decreasing preference until one works or the whole shebang fails. Therefore, this "the standard is the standard" statement provides no support whatsoever for the assertion that we should not make this change, and in fact, it _encourages_ such a change. >> Yeah, that's what some people here keep telling us. But what is the >> actual harm in handling broken MX records in a tolerant way? Nobody has >> yet answered that question. > > The harm is bloating the code for no good reason. Often people are > forced to bad software so you may decide to cope with that, > but what else then stupidity is responsible for bad MX entries ? The code already loops through all the MX records. Look in "courier/submit.C" starting at line 529. In order to bring Courier in line with the MX methodology recommended in RFC 974, all that's necessary would be to change the criteria used for deciding when to break out of that loop and return from the routine. This would result in a very small net gain in code size ... perhaps even a net increase of zero or a decrease. > Bye > Racke -- Lloyd Zusman 01234567 <-- The world famous Indent-o-Meter [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^ God bless you. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
