wrote:
> jpd writes:
>>qmail is djb produce and as such any argument about it tends to get
>>polarized in a hurry. Personally, I don't like qmail, from not liking
>>both its and djb's style. Apart from that, I don't consider it fit for
>>use on the internet.
>
> Well, AFAIK qmail inevitably creates outscatter for received spams to
> invalid addresses. Outscatter has become considered a special sort of
> spam, and get's the IP number of the sender listed.
More specifically, it generates one backscattering bounce for each
address in each spam. That appears to be a direct consequence of a
design decision.
> So djb wasn't paranoid *enough* when he designed qmail.
Maybe. Or maybe it means that fixing the design for the One True Way To
Do Things has painted the thing in a corner when it turns out to be not
quite entirely the One True Way after all.
I can't say I care much about the precise reasons, though.
>>On the other hand, if all you want is hand off mail to your isp, you
>>don't even need a fully fledged MTA like sendmail or postfix; you could
>>get a minimalist SEP MTA from the ports and use that.
>
> I'm sure that SEP does not refer to Douglas Adams' "Somebody Elses
> Problem", but what does it stand for?
The point of such an MTA is not to route and deliver mail, but to get it
off this system and to another system to deal with.
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