* Steve Langasek: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 08:32:20AM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote: >> 2.1 I'd suggest not to change that, it's a good compromise between >> performance and reliability. > > 2.1. Bounce message contents are not crash-proof. > > Qmail does not value the contents of a bounce message. Dan documents this > in a subordinate clause of his qmail reliability FAQ. That means: if your > qmail is bouncing mail and at the same time, your system crashes, the > bounce mail contents may be corrupt or incomplete. > > This sounds like data loss, which is normally considered a grave bug per > <http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer>. Do people disagree that this is a > grave bug?
Yes. Most of our MTAs deliberately truncate bounce messages. And arguing with RFC 3461 is a bit problematic because our default MTA doesn't implement that RFC. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
