Re: orbs.org accuses qmail of mailbomb relaying!

[John White]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 11:20:00AM -0400, Michael T. Babcock wrote:
> 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?

What are you talking about?  You make it sound like MTAs have no 
choice but to accept new smtp connections until they crash.  I know
of at least one MTA which doesn't act like this.  I question whether
any MTA which -does- act like this should be in use.
 
> There's nothing wrong with using intelligent queuing to reorder messages and
> reduce session #'s.  

Sure there is.  It creates overhead.

> If just getting the mail out FAST is all that matters,
> fine.  But that's NOT all that matters.

To be blunt, I don't mind taking a look at the code changes you're
proposing.  Where are they?

John