Re: [Mailman-Users] Strange Wiki entry for Postfix Tuning

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Brad Knowles : > The way I read this, it has nothing to do with the number of MXes you > have. It has to do with how many SMTP delivery sessions you'll > attempt over the same connection before you drop the connection and > re-connect (if you have more than this number of deliveries left), > an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Strange Wiki entry for Postfix Tuning

2009-08-06 Thread Brad Knowles
on 8/4/09 5:11 AM, Stefan Förster said: So, what is the reason for that setting? From man 5 postconf: ,[ man 5 postconf | less +/^smtp_mx_session_limit ] | smtp_mx_session_limit (default: 2) | | The maximal number of SMTP sessions per delivery request before | giving up or deliverin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Strange Wiki entry for Postfix Tuning

2009-08-06 Thread Mark Sapiro
Stefan Förster wrote: > > Since Mailman's "bin" directory has 755 permissions on Debian, every > user can attempt to run these commands. Most directories (except > private archives) in /var/lib/mailman have world read/execute > permissions, but it seems that the actual data is owned by group > "li

Re: [Mailman-Users] Strange Wiki entry for Postfix Tuning

2009-08-06 Thread Stefan Förster
* Mark Sapiro : > Stefan Förster wrote: > > list_lists | awk '(NR > 1){print $1}' | \ > > or > > list_lists --bare | \ Thank you, tbh, I didn't read list_lists manpage. > > I'm running a Debian package of Mailman and I know that it is > > modified, I just don't know to which extent. Perhaps som

Re: [Mailman-Users] Strange Wiki entry for Postfix Tuning

2009-08-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
Stefan Förster wrote: > > list_lists | awk '(NR > 1){print $1}' | \ or list_lists --bare | \ > I'm running a Debian package of Mailman and I know that it is > modified, I just don't know to which extent. Perhaps someone with more > knowledge could comment on the availability of those two helper

Re: [Mailman-Users] Strange Wiki entry for Postfix Tuning

2009-08-05 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Stefan Förster : > In my case, this script returns "7", so smtp_mx_session_limit should > be "4". The problem with this script is, however, that it relies on > "list_lists" and "list_members" being available to a user with shell > access. on python.org it returns 18 and 10 -- Ralf Hildebrandt

Re: [Mailman-Users] Strange Wiki entry for Postfix Tuning

2009-08-05 Thread Stefan Förster
* Ralf Hildebrandt : > * Stefan Förster : > > | smtp_mx_session_limit (default: 2) > > > > While I can certainly imagine larger sites having somewhere between > > five to ten MXs, 100 seems a bit... oversized. > > maybe it tries to set a very hight threshold, thus ALWAYS using ALL > MXes? You do

Re: [Mailman-Users] Strange Wiki entry for Postfix Tuning

2009-08-04 Thread LuKreme
On Aug 4, 2009, at 8:13, Barry Warsaw wrote: It's okay, I'm lactose intolerant. But the original question is still, I think, unanswered. -- Sent from my iPhone -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Strange Wiki entry for Postfix Tuning

2009-08-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 4, 2009, at 7:43 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Stefan Förster : * Ralf Hildebrandt : Bary Warsaw or Brad Knowles. According to my knowledge they haven't married. I might be wrong though. Barry, Brad, I apologize. No offense intended. Lack of coffee. Same here. I apologize for the ch

Re: [Mailman-Users] Strange Wiki entry for Postfix Tuning

2009-08-04 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Stefan Förster : > * Ralf Hildebrandt : > > Bary Warsaw or Brad Knowles. According to my knowledge they haven't > > married. I might be wrong though. > > Barry, Brad, I apologize. No offense intended. Lack of coffee. Same here. I apologize for the cheesy joke. -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäfts

Re: [Mailman-Users] Strange Wiki entry for Postfix Tuning

2009-08-04 Thread Stefan Förster
* Ralf Hildebrandt : > Bary Warsaw or Brad Knowles. According to my knowledge they haven't > married. I might be wrong though. Barry, Brad, I apologize. No offense intended. Lack of coffee. Cheers Stefan -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Us

Re: [Mailman-Users] Strange Wiki entry for Postfix Tuning

2009-08-04 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Stefan Förster : > Hello, > > I've discovered that the FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/x/rIA9 > mentions to set smtp_mx_session_limit=100. While normally, I would > reject such a suggestion as outright wrong, I noticed that this were > comments made by Barry Knowles, and you don't just ignore hints

[Mailman-Users] Strange Wiki entry for Postfix Tuning

2009-08-04 Thread Stefan Förster
Hello, I've discovered that the FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/x/rIA9 mentions to set smtp_mx_session_limit=100. While normally, I would reject such a suggestion as outright wrong, I noticed that this were comments made by Barry Knowles, and you don't just ignore hints from someone with that much exp