Re: High volume mail handling architecture
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 09:49:27AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> So, that's my plea to everybody with big mail installations: make your
> frontend machines aware of what mail they are supposed to accept, so that
> you never need to bounce. (Ok, some cases will still bounce: disk full,
> procmail script errors etc., but these are a very small proportion.) And
> the other plea is, of course, get rid of qmail and other products which
Or, alternatively, patch qmail with a patch like this one:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/humungusfungus/code/validrcptto.html
Mind you, this patch will remove some of qmail's functionality (e-mail to
xxx-anthing@ will not work anymore if xxx@ is a defined e-mail address). But
it's definitely worth it :)
Bye for now,
Ward.
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