Jeremy Bowen wrote:
No I'm not. Read what I wrote. "If an MTA does accept email for delivery, it
should NEVER bounce it"
In my experience with qmail (which I'll fully admit is not extensive), I don't
believe it behaves in the manner I'm complaining about. I don't think it
bounces mail for unknown local users in its default configuration.
This issue seems to be the main point of contention
Qmail does bounce after the SMTP transaction. qmail-smtpd has no
knowledge of who the local recipients are, it accepts all mail for
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and delivers to QMAILQUEUE. Eventually qmail-local is
called and that decides if the user exists or not - and then generates
the bounce
See "The big qmail picture" on http://www.nrg4u.com/ for a nice GIF of
it all.
Maybe my installation is non-standard but again, in my experience, the
catch-all address collects this mail and doesn't subsequently bounce it so
No, it's not broken.
I do that too - but that's no standard feature - installing a
~alias/qmail-default (it effectively matches all local users who don't
exist)
If you're saying that by default qmail always accepts and then bounces mail
for unknown local users then I'll revise my opinion of qmail.
Time to start revising then! :-)
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