Re: orbs.org accuses qmail of mailbomb relaying!

[Adam McKenna]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 04:47:15PM +0200, Frank Tegtmeyer wrote:
> 
> > qmail doesn't do this by default, and manages to use resources much more
> > efficiently than sendmail, which does this.  Why should qmail change?
> 
> It does break one of the basic rules on the Internet that many people fell 
> ist still important. It produces bad reputation (based only on this one 
> fact, ignoring all the other good things about qmail) for qmail and 
> sometimes it's author. This is often extended to administrators using 
> qmail.

What it does is make sendmail look bad.  qmail can easily handle a flood of
incoming connections (if it is being run through tcpserver).  It will coolly
defer all incoming connections until a slot opens up.  IMHO this is an
important feature, and the fact that sendmail doesn't handle incoming
connections as gracefully is not an excuse to bash qmail.

--Adam