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- From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
- Subject: Re: Return-Receipt-To & forwarding...
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- Organization: York University
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:47:28 GMT
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- barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
- |Sorry, I have to agree with John Stanley on this one. In addition
- |to the scenario John mentioned, consider the following:
- [scenario which make outdoing mail fail from a site]
-
- With respect, any system, reliable or not, can be buggered up. That doesn't
- make the system unreliable (ie, it does not change its underlying character).
-
- Mr. Stanley is raving mad (in the sense of angry, not insane, but
- also consider fingering him and making up your own mind) and is
- arguing events which may well have taken place somewhere, some time.
- They are seriously unusual and do not justify the establishment of the
- return receipt mechanism.
-
- York is the second-largest and second-cheapest university in Canada,
- and one of our three main mailhubs processes between 100 and 200
- thousand messages per month (see below).
-
- Jun 1991 4729 x
- Jul 1991 4423 x
- Aug 1991 43405 xxxxx
- Sep 1991 84828 xxxxxxxxx
- Oct 1991 62510 xxxxxxx
- Nov 1991 164421 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Dec 1991 202805 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Jan 1992 93286 xxxxxxxxxx
- Feb 1992 116862 xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Mar 1992 132674 xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Apr 1992 137614 xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- May 1992 144873 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Jun 1992 112393 xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Jul 1992 186773 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Aug 1992 115636 xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Sep 1992 122207 xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Oct 1992 202904 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Nov 1992 193313 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Dec 1992 191306 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-
- It is a rare event and a major concern when messages go missing or
- unanswered in a given month: my job depends on the reliable operation
- of SMTP.
- If memory serves, we had about three panics (searches for missing
- messages) last year, out of 1.8m+. That still makes my blood run cold...
-
- --dave
- ps: we use Rayan's Zmailer from UofT and pop/imap: the comment
- below about sendmail is becoming less and less true. (Special thanks
- to ozan for leading me to the true religion: zmailer is programmable
- by mere mortals)
- --
- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@CCS.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave
- 72 Abitibi Ave., |
- Willowdale, Ontario, | York Postmaster and
- CANADA. 416-223-8968 | occasional sendfail(8) consultant.
-