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Reply To: | Forum on LISTSERV release 1.7 |
Date: | Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:44:30 +0100 |
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:32:32 EST Jim Jones <JIMJ@JHUVM> said:
> You could have the copy of DOMAIN NAMES that LISTSERV@UBVM uses route
> the various domains to different places. That is, send .COM entries
> to the local SMTP server, send .EDU entries to another server, and
> .GOV someplace else... Yes, it's gross, but it would divide the 8k+
> recipients into at least a few chunks.
This is roughly what some of the INTERBIT sites do to slice off the
traffic: .EDU goes to SMTPA, .COM goes to SMTPB, and so on. As you said
it is gross, but it works.
A more interesting approach, given that LISTSERV never generates more
than a configurable amount of RCPT TO:'s on a given message (by default
500 - it seems to be the highest most mailers appear to take), would be
to have the mailer alternate between a number of different hosts in a
round robin fashion. To do that it would of course have to be fed
configuration statements of the type "when sending mail to INTERBIT,
alternate between the following actual nodeids" which would have to be
carefully synchronized with BITEARN NODES changes and absolutely not
configured once and then forgotten until one of the nodeids in question
is deleted and mail starts bouncing :-) Unfortunately I can't think of
any better solution at the moment, given that I would hate to see special
hardcoded statements for the node INTERBIT (and what about UUCPGATE and
others then?).
Eric
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