2010/12/30 Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at>:
> On 30 Dec 2010, at 19:56, Lazy <lazy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> qmail uses ANY so m$ is not getting any mail from us
>
> This is several bugs in qmail. It is making the query in order to 
> canonicalize the domain in outgoing email, which it does not need to do 
> according to the current SMTP specs. It should be making an MX query (not 
> CNAME as it originally did and not ANY as it has done since about 1998) in 
> order to find out if the domain needs to be canonicalized. It also has an 
> undersized DNS packet buffer and cannot cope with truncated replies, so even 
> if ANY queries for microsoft.com worked, qmail could not handle the reply.
>
> Qmail is buggy and unmaintained and has been abandoned by its author. Best 
> avoided.

easy for you to say ;)

there are still many more or less happy qmail users, maybe we need
just another patch ;)

Regards

Lazy
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