Re: orbs.org accuses qmail of mailbomb relaying!

[Michael T. Babcock]

Don't get me wrong.  I like Qmail for the most part.  I just think there's
room for improvement.  And room for less attitude ... hint.

Petr Novotny wrote:

> > The problem is that there shouldn't be any "domain in
> > question," an MTA should make efficient use of a limited number of
> > SMTP sessions when transferring mail to any other MTA.
>
> This horse has been beaten to death. What do you mean by
> "should"? And why "limited number"?

To be friendly to your neighbours ...

> Of course, your MTA might have different priorities. Nobody
> coerced you into using qmail, right?

No, but if qmail is making the deliveries to another MTA, that MTA doesn't
have much choice about whether its going to accept deliveries from Qmail or
not, so why not make Qmail a nice neighbour while we're at it?

There's nothing wrong with using intelligent queuing to reorder messages and
reduce session #'s.  If just getting the mail out FAST is all that matters,
fine.  But that's NOT all that matters.