Re: Advanced tricks I use to get rid of spam using MX 4xx

[Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>]

Uncle George wrote:
> Qmail does it correctly, as it was designed before 2001. Qmail does 
> not do it correctly because the latest RFC suggests a different SMTP 
> strategy.
> One might think that after 5 years, the debate over this issue would 
> have been resolved. And there would be some progress towards 
> implementation.  Maybe like what the spec's says, except also allow  a 
> configurable zero or more MX retries. For those who want to be in  
> current RFC graces, then set it to min 2. For those who want no 
> retries, then set it to max 1.
Yes - it would be nice if Qmail (without having to apply a third part 
path) would have the *option* of processing MX records the way Exim, 
Sendmail, Postfix, and Exchange and every other MTA does. Is it too much 
to ask for the option?