Re: orbs.org accuses qmail of mailbomb relaying!

[David Dyer-Bennet]

Michael T. Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 22 July 2000 at 08:32:24 
-0400
 > Ok then, on an honest note, the point would then be to have an MTA regulate its
 > incoming connections in an 'intelligent' manner so as to allow mail to actually
 > get through from non-qmail MTAs within a reasonable time frame?  If I allow 20
 > simultaneous connections (hypothetically) and mail is delivered from 5 different
 > hosts at once, two of which are running qmail with mailing lists, odds are that
 > the other three hosts won't be able to connect and may bounce the message back
 > to the sender because the qmail sites used all my connections.
 > 
 > Is this correct?

Certainly not!  The sender should simply back off and try again later
-- what they all do now if they fail to connect on the first try, in
fact.
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