Words by Mário Gamito [Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 06:26:30PM +0100]:
> Hi,
>
> I've written a series of articles in my blog called "understanding qmail".
>
> If you think they may help someone, I'd appreciate your vote in Digg.
>
> http://digg.com/linux_unix/understanding_qmail
>
Of course I'll vote. Just to broaden the universe of who you make an ass
of yourself to.
The articles are sprinkled with errors as I already mentioned to you
personally and as comments on your blog. The later where removed without
even bothering to correct as pointed.
Just a few examples (have only read up to part 3):
- qmail-smtpd (as in qmail vanilla) does no message analysis. Unless
byte counting counts as analysis. It does some checking of the envelope,
that's what you mean?
- control/rcpthosts is of no use to qmail-send.
- "qmail-send ... next, it will start one of two processes for message
delivery: qmail-lspawn for the local server or qmail-rspwan for a remote
one.". I don't really think start is the right word.
- actually qmail-clean also cleans queue of messages sent with success
(and preprocessed envelopes for that matter).
- control/locals specifies domains not addresses.
- control/defaultdomain, not vagely uncorrectly defined e-mail
addresses, just addresses missing a '.' on the host part.
- You mean that if I send you an e-mail to gamito it will read
defaultdomain, add the domain and send to gamito@domain? So can I log to
the server and use qmail-inject?
- Wildcards on control/badmailfrom? What wildcards?
- There's no such thing as control/badmailto on (vanilla) qmail.
- control/bouncefrom, you must mean *from* which.
- control/smtproutes, bad example, awful example: IP addresses must be
enclosed in [square] brackets.
- "timeoutsmtpd: it specifies the amount of time (in number of seconds)
qmail-smtpd waits to receive a buffer from the remote server." Hmm, and
how is that suposed to happen? The receiving of the buffer I mean.
--
Jose Celestino
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