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Date: | Fri, 7 Mar 1997 01:17:28 EST |
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> one must make informed choices. i was pointing out some issues associated
> with using qmail with listserv. if you want an ideal fit i suppose you
> should use lsmtp. i suspect we would be using it if it had been available
> for sunos-5 when we started delivering too much mail for sendmail to
> handle.
Unfortunately, LSMTP is not yet available for any Unix.
> however if you deliver enough mail that lsmtp might be useful then you
> might find youself dealing with a lot of bounces (many thousands a day).
> at that time the system adminstrator or the list owners might be interested
> in dealing with most of them automatically.
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> of course maybe i just need to find that hands free bounce processing switch.
Yes, I get a lot of bounces, although it's not up to the level of
thousands a day (usually). I like the idea of automating the handling
of them. It's just that I think that DSNs are the best long-term
strategy for doing that. If you run qmail on a machine with real user
mailboxes (not just a dedicated LISTSERV machine), you would be doing a
disservice to other LISTSERV sites, as you would not be generating DSNs
for bounced mail. Recent versions of sendmail generate DSNs and
LISTSERV handles them automatically (although setting Auto-Delete
properly is still an art).
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