Since the vast majority of people use smtp, trying qmtp first would needless
waste a lot of time, packets, and probably create confusion.  A better
solution would probbaly be to use esmtp to query for qmtp like capability.

> i was taking a look at djb's qmail page and saw that future 
> plans for qmail
> included showing through dns records whether a server was 
> capable of qmtp or
> not. This may have already been beaten to death on this 
> discussion list but:
> Why not set up qmail-remote to try to deliver the message 
> over the standard
> qmtp port (209 i believe), and if it can't make a connection, 
> then fallback to
> smtp?

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