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Subject: Re: [OT] Lotus Domino Performance question
From: Jim Seymour (jseymourLinxNet.com)
Date: Sun Aug 20 2000 - 12:08:39 CDT

Ralf Hildebrandt <news-list.postfix.usersinnominate.de> wrote:
>
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>
> Is Domino really so bad?

I can't speak as to the "one message per connection" issue, but IME:
yes, the Bloated Goats MTA/SMTP gateway is pretty poor. I was, for a
short while, subjected to having to admin one of these. Never again.
And the company I worked for had a subsidiary that ran it.

For example, just two problems I experienced with that piece of
garbage: 1) the thing does not use, nor know how to use, mail headers.
In fact: it strips 'em out! So if you should get a mail loop between
it and another MTA, the loop will go on forever. 2) It doesn't seem to
know how to take "no" for an answer. Had a user at the remote site try
to mail a rather large attachment that exceeded what Postfix was
configured to accept *at* *the* *default* (10MB?). Postfix kept
telling it *no*. And since the brain-dead thing was not ESMTP, of
course Postfix had to wait all the way to the end. This on an
expensive international ISDN dialup. Postfix would reject it. Stoopid
Bloated Goats would try to "reconnect" (?) to send it again. Postfix
would tell it to piss off. Bloated Goats would go away and try again a
half-hour or so later. Did wonders for the ISDN tab before I
discovered the situation and I got the remote admin to kill the email.
(Later, the damn fool that tried to send that large email did it
*again*. Even after having been larted for doing it the first time.
Idiot.)

Regards,
Jim