On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Petr Novotny wrote:

> I beg to differ. qmail-smtpd's are running in parallel, and need the 
> validation reasonably fast (otherwise SMTP connection times out, 
> and is retried; with suboptimal retry schedules of some MTA, that's 
> a disaster, quite likely). On the other hand, the validation in
> qmail-local does not have to be that fast and can be run in serial 
> (the only problem being the queue growing up).

And when the queue fills up, qmail-smtpd will start refusing messages and
with suboptimal retry schedules of some MTA... well, in this scenario, 
some messages would probably be delivered.

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."

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