[40194] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: trapdoor.merit.edu and other impatient Postfix mailers everywhere (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Aug 3 01:10:07 2001
Message-Id: <200108030509.f73592w00756@foo-bar-baz.cc.vt.edu>
To: "Matthew E. Martini" <martini@invision.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Aug 2001 20:23:46 EDT."
<Pine.BSF.4.33.0108022019340.3818-100000@aeon.invision.net>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 01:09:02 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 02 Aug 2001 20:23:46 EDT, Matt Martini <martini@invision.net> said:
> The above is exactly the reason (well not the only reason), that we now use
> Qmail instead of sendmail.
>
> I never liked the idea of someone else, with an agenda that I'm sure
> doesn't coinside with mine, telling me who I should talk to or not. When
> the source code defaulted to using these "services" that's when I bailed on
> sendmail.
Hmm... so you went to all the trouble of converting to qmail instead of
actually finding out what was going on? Yes, qmail is probably a better
choice if you can't be bothered to read the documentation enough to
understand that *if* you specify a 'dnsbl' feature *yourself*, but forget
to provide a DNS server name, it will suggest one for you.
But then, McDonald's has a sign "Ask about alternate toys for children
under 3".
Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech
