[RFCI-Discuss] (no subject)

[Derek J. Balling]

On Oct 18, 2005, at 3:05 PM, mouss wrote:
> as I don't use qmail, I can't tell; but this doesn't seem to be the  
> opinion on:
> http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/qmail-myths- 
> dispelled.html#MythAboutDenialOfService

(a) if you've only got mail destined for one site, or a majority of  
it for one site, you'll happily open up [n] connections there, where  
[n] *NOW* defaults to 20
(b) [n] used to have no default. There used to be no way whatsoever  
of rate-limiting that "feature".
(c) There are lots of sites which can't handle [n] inbound concurrent  
connections, because they're on slow links, etc., etc.

qmail is evil. One of my goals at $ORKPLACE is stripping out the  
qmail infrastructure and replacing it with "something else".

D



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