On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 07:40:59PM -0400, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 06:31:03PM -0500, Chris Garrigues wrote:
> >
> > netstat -a |fgrep '*:qmtp'
> >
> > or the low-level C equivalent.
>
> I'm not concerned with this. I'm concerned with Fred's proposal
> relying on the status of the remote smtp and qmtp server. If I'm
> "local" and someone else is "remote" and remote's qmtp service is
> down, but remote's smtp server is still advertising qmtp then I
> shouldn't have my queue grow because of it. There should be some
> local communication about bum servers if this database is used, to
> prevent it from severely slowing down email.
Well extend it a bit to ignore qmtp in smtp banners for like one hour if qmtp turns
out to be _not_ available. No big deal.
Greetz, Peter
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