Mailing list speed (was: Re: Mailing List Plans)

[Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>]

Hi Jeff,

congratulations again to the new mailing list setup. Currently mail sent to
the egcs list arrives nearly simultaneously with directly sent messages!

I guess I can limit the use of the Reply-All button now :-)

Thanks,
Franz.

At 18:04 08.12.98 , Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
>  In message <4.1.19981208103512.03fde920@mail.lauterbach.com>you write:
>  > >It currently looks like "egcs-return-135-smurf=noris.de@egcs.cygnus.com".
>  > 
>  > This is a must to handle bounces correctly and automatically. I would
think
>  > it's unsafe (and wrong?) to redirect on the envelope sender address
anyway.
>  > What you would do with a double bounce with "<>" as return path? Where
>  > should this be redirected to?
>Yes.  We absolutely need those sequence #s so that qmail/ezmlm can
>automatically handle bounces.
>
>They're also for your benefit.  I gathered from reading the ezmlm docs that it
>can actually send you a message indicating what messages failed if there were
>transient error messages.  You can then request that ezmlm send you just those
>messages (or a subset).  For sites with connectivity problems I would think
>it would be quite useful.
>
>
>
>jeff