Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: Posting to this list without 500 bounces? | Date | 28 Sep 2000 20:25:09 GMT |
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In article <3776575819.970144217@[10.10.1.2]>, Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@us.ibm.com> wrote: >> When I was researching the use of ORBS and MAPS a few weeks >> back, my first thought was that the DUL would unfairly block Linux >> users running Sendmail. Looks like that's true. > >Just give sendmail a smart_host of your ISP's mail server. In theory >I guess this slows thing down, and yes it's a pain, but on the other >hand, it works.
It speeds things up in a lot of cases. What if the destination host is down? What if the destination host is in Zimbabwe connected through a 9600 baud modem? Much easier to transfer your mail full speed to the ISPs smarthost and let it care about all that.
And unreliable ISP SMTP servers? Hard to imagine, as 99.5% of the userbase undoubtedly uses that SMTP server and I can't believe that a reasonable ISP randomly drops email messages.
That being said you should never get bounces when posting to the Linux kernel mailing list, since it isn't you who delivers all that mail to the endusers, but the majordomo running on vger or one of the exploders. The SMTP envelope from address should also be set to majordomo@vger, so I can't see how you would get hundreds of ORBS and DUL bounces ... &^%*& fscking out-of-office replies, yes (they should reinstate hanging for that ...)
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