On Sat, 08 Sep 2001, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> > qmail-send creates bounces that are not properly-formatted in that they
> > don't pass SMTP.
>
> False. qmail-send creates a bounce message in the extended format only
> if the original message was in the extended format.
So it does, and my claim is not "false". qmail cannot reliably bounce
"extended format" (whatever that is), that's a fact you acknowledged.
That IS a reliability problem no matter what YOU call it.
If (favourite contestant) did this, you'd put up a web page about
(favourite contestant) mail disasters, showing that (favourite
contestant) ate mail. See all that outdated Postfix discussion which is
obsolete since 1998-12-25 you just keep up because you feel as the
user's lawyer without actually having a mandate.
However, now I know better and will tell all people not to run
qmail-qmqpd to prevent their users shooting themselves in their feet.
The SMTP latency issues you point out ("1,000 recipient mail across 28.8
kbps modem link") are non-existant with ESMTP PIPELINING.
Bad thing qmail-remote can't do it, but that's your own business.
To the rest of the list, the patch I sent is incomplete and just fixes
the "missing terminated line" case. I didn't expect qmail to be that
blatantly ignorant of existing restrictions. Watch your mail logs
closely (from cron or functional equivalents) for discarded mail if you
run qmail-qmqpd.
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Matthias Andree
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