Re: Bug#510415: tech-ctte: Qmail inclusion (or not) in Debian
* Steve Langasek:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 08:32:20AM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote:
>> 2.1 I'd suggest not to change that, it's a good compromise between
>> performance and reliability.
>
> 2.1. Bounce message contents are not crash-proof.
>
> Qmail does not value the contents of a bounce message. Dan documents this
> in a subordinate clause of his qmail reliability FAQ. That means: if your
> qmail is bouncing mail and at the same time, your system crashes, the
> bounce mail contents may be corrupt or incomplete.
>
> This sounds like data loss, which is normally considered a grave bug per
> <http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer>. Do people disagree that this is a
> grave bug?
Yes. Most of our MTAs deliberately truncate bounce messages.
And arguing with RFC 3461 is a bit problematic because our default MTA
doesn't implement that RFC.
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