Just curious as to wether this persons argument about qmail not complying
with RFC 821 is correct or not? Anyone?
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 07:37:43 +1200 (NZST)
From: Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Keith Warno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Subscribers of Qpopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Too load !
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Keith Warno wrote:
> Flames will be directed to /dev/null ; this was not intended to start an MTA
> war. It's just a possible solution.
I'm not going to flame - just point out that qmail breaches RFC 821 in
several areas. It's also fairly unfriendly about bandwidth usage _and_
accepts some relay attempts, then dumps them in the postmaster box,
which can result in local or proxy mailbombings.
Postfix and Exim are two other alternatives to sendmail, both better
behaved.
Qmail _is_ useful if you run a list processor because of its high
throughput abilities, but IMO it's not suitable as a general purpose
mailserver. It was designed for list servers with good bounce management
and it shows.
AB
