I'm obviously clueless, so perhaps someone can explain...
He says it's great for mailing lists, but it seems like the complaints
he has would be most apropos mailing lists. Am I misreading this?
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 05:04:59PM +0800, Philip, Tim (CNBC Asia) wrote:
>
> ------------ HERE IS WHAT ORBS.ORG SAID ABOUT QMAIL: ------------
>
> Kick Qmail's author.
>
> To be honest, I regard qmail as a bit of a dog. It's great for mailing
> lists, but as a general purpose MTA it has too many bad habits.
>
> Apart from the accept, then process issue it also:
>
> Only sends one RCPT TO:<> per message, even if multiple recipients are at
> the same MX.
>
> Opens as many connections to a remote server as it can in order to deliver
> those individual messages in parallel.
>
> It results in temporary denial of service attacks and huge amounts of
> unnecessary bandwidth consumption. The program is designed around a
> mentality of "I will deliver the mail _now_, _no matter what_", instead of
> being a nice network neighbour and treating smtp as low priority data which
> is given sensible backoff algorithms.
>
> Regards
> Alan Brown
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
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