On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 11:55:17AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
> Hotmail, last time I checked, used qmail for outgoing mail, zmailer
> for incoming mail. If it's slow and unreliable, it's not because it
> uses qmail, it's because it's too busy or poorly run. If sendmail
> would have been better than qmail+zmailer, they probably would have
> used it.
The 'qmail for outgoing' claim is correct. The 'zmailer for incoming' claim is very
ridiculous. Until a couple of weeks ago (maybe even shorter) hotmail used a very nice
SMTP agent of their own making. I don't know what it is they're using now, but it is
quite broken:
telnet mail.hotmail.com 25
Trying 209.1.112.253...
Connected to mail.hotmail.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220-HotMail (NO UCE) ESMTP server ready at Mon Apr 12 09:01:20 1999
220 ESMTP spoken here
EHLO attic.vuurwerk.nl
an esmtp server that does not understand EHLO...
Greetz, Peter
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