Steve Burling wrote: > >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?
Yes. This error should result in the message being placed in the retry queue and being retried every 15 minutes until it is delivered or DELIVERY_RETRY_PERIOD (default 5 days) expires. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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
