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Re: Is qmail "best reserved for mailing list server purposes only"?
- To: Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: Is qmail "best reserved for mailing list server purposes only"?
- From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 15:35:08 +0200
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Russ Allbery(rra@stanford.edu)@2001.04.29 14:49:03 +0000:
> q question <qquestion@hotmail.com> writes:
[...]
> > Qmail is extremely network unfriendly and generates denial of service
> > attacks on other mailservers in its enthusiasm to deliver as many
> > messages as possible in a short period of time.
>
> False. qmail's default configuration is incapable of doing that except
> possibly to a pathetically undersized e-mail server that would have
> problems with all sorts of normal deliveries.
exchange, notes. systems not primarily designed to process mail.
consider _them_ broken by default ;-)
/k
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