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

[phil]

Russell Nelson wrote:

> A host that persistently refuses to run the SMTP protocol on the SMTP
> port cannot be said to be running SMTP.

So why not fall back to another one that does?

> Tell them to fix their SMTP servers, don't work around their
> breakage.

Isn't the design philosophy of the Internet supposed to be one where it is
desireable to work around breakage?

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