Richard Underwood writes:
> My other suspicion is that there's a chance that my one server will
> try a couple of dozen connections to the same remote host at the same time.
> (This is an issue in itself!)
Not really. It used to be an issue back in 1996 when qmail was first
introduced. There were still legacy smtp daemons which couldn't
handle the load they offered to accept. These days, nobody wants to
be trampled by a big mailing list house (and they *all* use qmail), so
everybody has incoming connection limits.
Now if you want to complain about your operating system's TCP stack
failing to share timeout information between TCP connections to the
same host, or cache TCP timeout information, go ahead. But that's a
TCP stack thing, not a qmail thing.
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