4 Mar
2005
4 Mar
'05
10:34 p.m.
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Jay West wrote:
I changed two things on the list setup tonight.
1) To subscribe to the list (new subscribers, not you guys), requires not
only a confirmation email, but also list owner approval. I'm having way to
much trouble with "people?" joining the list and all their email immediately
bouncing. It gums up the speedy delivery for everyone else.
How about also sending a copy of the FAQ to new subscribers? I know it's
not much (I swear I'll put time into updating it if I ever get some free
time) but it's something.
2) I changed the max time in queue for any message
(outbound) to 35 minutes.
This means the server will try to send email to you once, then again 30
minutes later, and then it will just give up on you. It won't unsubscribe
you at that point, it takes like 7 days of bounces to get you unsubbed. But
it won't try to send you any given list post more than twice now. Same
reason as above.
Can you please change that to something like 3 times with 2 hour
intervals? Or at least allow it to try more than twice. This still
doesn't help someone who has a 24 hour server outage thanks to their
stupid ISP (like I've been experiencing lately).
For those sendmail inclined.... I considered setting
up a secondary queue
for slow delivery where any emails that take longer than X time get moved to
a low priority queue. Quite frankly, I don't want to deal with it. I'd just
get more complaints about posts being out of order ;)
This solution sounds preferable to me.
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