At 14:18 -0500 12/7/2001, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: >Speaking of Exim.. one thing that really bothers me about Exim is the >message(s) it sends when it has to wait to deliver the message... these >would be interpreted as bounces, although they really are not. I've seen >a few such messages, only to have the message delivered normally. That >would trigger some bounce logic to at least pick up on what really isn't >(yet) a bounce.
Exim's delayed delivery warnings are "orderly" enough that it would be quite easy to ignore them in bounce processing. In several ways, they don't look like failure messages. Meanwhile, they let a user who has mistyped an address know about it sooner than without the messages. For an Exim running in support of "live" users. Assuming, of course, that the Exim administrator has resisted the temptation to "improve" the delayed delivery message. If she's done that, users are likely to fall off lists. One hopes that the Exim admin and the Mailman admin are speaking to each other. If the Exim is running just to handle Mailman, the warning message can be done away with entirely (and the retry intervals can be adjusted, and several other such adjustments made). Trivially. But of course, you can't configure away messages generated by remote sites you don't control. --John _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
