This is really an "is my understanding correct" question... Our mail server is getting the snot beat out of it by spambots, and even though I've turned on pretty aggressive connection rate control and limiting of the number of concurrent connections from any particular bot, we still occasionally hit sendmail's (configured) limit of 70 child processes, at which point we start refusing connections for awhile. During those times, mailman is also refused connections, resulting in errors like this from smtp-failure:
Log file: smtp-failure ============================== 23 delivery failed with code -1: (111, 'Connection refused') 1 Low level smtp error: (111, 'Connection refused'), msgid: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1 Low level smtp error: (111, 'Connection refused'), msgid: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Am I correct that Mailman doesn't consider these permanent errors, and will re-try these attempts later? Nothing seems to be left lying around in the queue files, so I'm hoping that subsequent retries succeeded, and not that Mailman just gave up and tossed things. (That doesn't seem likely to me, but I figured it was better to ask, so I know if I have to spend more time trying to figure out how to make sendmail only refuse connections on the non-localhost interface. Although if anyone knows the magic knob to do that, I would appreciate a hint.) -- Steve Burling <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Michigan, ICPSR Voice: +1 734 615.3779 330 Packard Street FAX: +1 734 647.8700 Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2910 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp