Re: When will qmail back off to the next MX?

[Jason Haar]

On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 05:14:57PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:

> It's still wrong.  At *very* least it's a violation of the SMTP
> protocol.  Where's the SMTP banner?

Sorry? Did I miss an earlier message? Where does it say it's a violation? I
thought this entire matter was due to it being an area not formally
mentioned in the RFCs - as it isn't mentioned, neither Qmail or Sendmail/et
al are right or wrong. My point was that "everyone else" does it a different
way than Qmail. If Qmail did it "the same way", it would make Qmail more
acceptable to users. 

I've always got some mail queued up trying to get through to sites affected
by Qmail's ruling on how to handle MX sites that drop after a connect.
Screwing around with /var/qmail/control/smtproutes all the time is not my
idea of fun...


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Cheers

Jason Haar

Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ
Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417