On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 22:42 +0100, Lazy wrote:

> 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 ;)
> 


I'm sure there's plenty of winblundaz 9(5|8) users out there who want
some 'moderness' as well.
Bind works as required, qmail does not, never did, and never will.


> Regards
> 
> Lazy


no, I wont say it, I wont, no matter how much I want too!

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