Re: Things I have noted

2001-01-26 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:13:28AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem with "there is a delay in delivering the message"-type mails > is that the average user never takes the time to read those messages, and > thinks that they mean that the mail has bounced. No, the problem is that whil

Re: Things I have noted

2001-01-26 Thread qmail
On 26 Jan 2001, James R Grinter wrote: > On the subject of notifications, it's becoming more of a problem > because of "similar" domains - you should have typed > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and instead type "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". The > latter doesn't even accept mail deliveries, so it hangs around in the

Re: Things I have noted

2001-01-25 Thread James R Grinter
"Rod... Whitworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:12:25 +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote: > >However there is a addon module available at http://www.qmail.org/ that > >IMHO does what you want. Search for delayed-mail notifier on qmails > >website. > > Thanks for that pointer. I di

Re: Things I have noted

2001-01-25 Thread Rod... Whitworth
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:12:25 +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote: >I personally *hate* those delay messages. Once I got one every hour for >a whole week from a remote system telling me that it cannot contact the >final delivery system. Really annoying and pretty useless, as there's >nothing I could have d

Re: Things I have noted

2001-01-25 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:33:18PM +1100, Rod... Whitworth wrote: > Q1: > I have learnt that qmail does not issue reply codes indicating permanent failure for >invalid users/mailboxes. > I know that these messages will eventually bounce but (apart from the issue of >determining whether a recipie