* Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010114 19:39]
> That's a misconfiguration.  I'd rather that the email bounced than it
> got delivered via SMTP silently.

Well, at the moment it'll only be bounced after queuelifetime...

> It could be that someone unaware of the MXPS standard (which admittedly
> includes 99.999999% of the world's population) could have set their MX
> priority to 12801.  If so, it's best to ask them to change their MX
> priority.

Agreed. What happens if they don't?

> It's much more likely that someone intends that the email be
> delivered via qmtpd but it is failing to run for some reason.  If we
> fall back to smtp, they'll never know that it's failing unless they're 
> watching their qmail logs carefully.

...or look at their Received: lines from time to time. After setting up
QMTP service and MXPS I suspect most people will watch their logs rather
closely for a few days...

-Johan
PS: Love the double spacing...
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Johan Almqvist
http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/

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