Michael,
"route through the server and send badly formatted email headers"
Could you clarify this? I'd like to know if there's something I'm doing
wrong, as I'm commonly seeing delays of six or more hours on week days.
Needless to say, twelve hour turnaround times seriously decrease the
usefulness of a support mailing list.
I'd also like to see you address the recent increase in off-topic postings
to this list. If that's a part of the cause of the poor performance, then
I would think you'd be concerned. I've got no problem with someone
posting a virus warning, but why the hell does it need to generate 25
replies? It's gotten completely out of hand.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, May 20, 2000 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Mail Delay ?
>Len, no disrespect intended, but I do accept help when offered and have
>answered you a number of times in the past. All I ever seem to get from
you
>is public complaints (emailing me first and then the list 7 minutes later
is
>a perfect example). I've sent the DNS issues to my ISP, but I fail to see
>how they are of massive importance to only you (re your isp taking you
off
>the list).
>Now, as for the machine, I've got 256 meg of ram and a high processor on
it
>already. I'll upgrade to a new machine as time and finances permit. As
for
>the delays, I've done a lot to fix them, but if people keep trying to
route
>through the server and send badly formatted email headers, problems will
>continue to pop up. This WILL change as new systems go online. I'd say
that
>90%+ of the time, the mail delay is within 10 minutes which is quite
>acceptable.
>
>
>>
>> >It's because there are a ton of people subscribed to the list and the
>> >list is hosted on a server that could use an upgrade. It has a
tendency
>> >to get bogged down.
>> >
>> >So who wants to pitch in to buy Michael a new server?
>>
>> Wrong approach.
>>
>> He could keep his current server for the locgical list processing, and
>> undisruptivelyh add something like an old P200 or better with 128 megs
fo
>> RAM running FreeBSD + postfix as a relay-only mail gateway for doing
the
>> nasty task of actual mail delivery. But if history is any guide,
offers
>of
>> help don't get accepted. For a list this large and active and
important
>to
>> its members, CF-talk deserves better performance.
>>
>> For Imail (or any brand mailserver, even Michal's ), I've got a site
...
>>
>> http://IMGate.MEIway.com
>>
>> ... that shows, and several ISP's done it successfully, how to build
such
>a
>> simple "appliance", including step-by-step for Installing FreeBSD and
the
>> postfix mailer. It would also give the CF-talk list Internet's best
>> anti-spam defense and DNS validations. A machine like that could
easily
>> handle several 100,000 msgs per day.
>>
>> Michael's DNS is also screwed up so, but he won't answer my repeated
mails
>> about how easily to fix it.
>>
>> Len
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