On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 12:18:45PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ryan Murray writes ("master's mail backlog and upgrade time"):
> > Also, I've investigated the mail backlog on master and found the main
> > problem. The mail queue is currently full of email that will never be
> > able to be delivered, all for one particular user. This mail is being
> > removed from the queue, and the setup changed to not deliver to the
> > problem address. Once this is finished (a few days), mail latency for
> > mail moving through master should be greatly improved.
> I have now discovered that the `one user' referred to is at least two
> of the users of my colo system, chiark.greenend.org.uk.
Based on specifics (well... more-specific vaguenesses) mentioned by Ryan
elsewhere, I don't believe this is the case. Chiark appears to be on the
wrong continent to be attached to the user in question, and reducing one to
two seems like a rather incredible off-by-one error to make in this case.
> * I now discover by reading master's exim4.conf that all mail
> to the _mail domain_ chiark.greenend.org.uk has been arranged to
> bounce on master. This is contrary to what is stated in the
> announcement, which says that the setup was changed `to not deliver
> to the problem _address_' (emph. mine).
Well, I certainly see a line in that file relating to chiark, but I have no
exim-fu to understand the precise semantics -- and certainly no idea why
it's there, sorry.
> Regarding the problem and how to solve it:
> * The mail backlog that `will never be able to be delivered' was
> (as far as I can tell) all spam that chiark has been properly
> rejecting.
No: there is nothing "proper" about rejecting mail from a host that you have
configured to forward mail for you.
> * It is unfortunate that (a) master has such a lax spam policy and
> that (b) Debian developers cannot choose to make their @debian.org
> address unuseable other than by the Debian system administrators.
... procmail?
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