5 Mar
2005
5 Mar
'05
3:56 p.m.
Der Mouse wrote...
How does a 421 greeting banner fit into this?
Good question, and I'm not sure of the answer. I'll find out.
But if you're giving up on retries, that rather
badly breaks the
assumptions underlying SMTP, and I care enough about list mail to be
willing to go to some minor lengths to keep it useful to me.)
I'm certainly not
giving up on retries. I just think it's excessive to allow
7 days of tries, especially when most of those are to addresses that don't
exist, or don't bother to keep their mailboxes from filling up to their
quota.
If that really is the concern, maybe make it a
per-user option?
You're welcome to hack the mailman code and give me the
patches. I need some
time with other things besides this list for a bit, the past two weeks have
been a little excessive. Sorry, I've been a bit grouchy lately.
but if
the actual reason is something more like "I don't have the time/energy
to figure out how to do this"
Not something I'm particularly fond of
admitting, but I have several
customers who I maintain their bulk email systems for. On average, each of
them process over 2 million outbound emails per week, all with Sendmail
clusters. Hey, at least it's subscription based, so I don't feel so slimy.
But my point is, I'm quite adept at handling multiple queues. I'm just a
little worn out. "figuring out how to do this" is not the issue.
Tell you what... once I get the address list cleaned up so that the
subscribers are known good email addresses, I'll set up two stage delivery
with a different queue runner for "problematic target mailservers". Then
I'll set the max time in queue back to a more "reasonable" level. But
I'm
sure I'll get lots of future questions about email order.
Regards,
Jay West