On 11/30/2004 16:45, "Brad Knowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 5:10 PM -0700 2004-11-30, Matt Ruzicka wrote: >> 1. How are people handling incoming mail to an SMTP server separate from >> the web server? > > MX records direct the mail traffic somewhere else. Or, the MX directs incoming mail to the farm, and the farm is configured to virus scan and spam-reduce it, then ship it off to a mail server on the Mailman machine. This works well for us (although I recently lost some of the spam reduction due to a configuration improvement which I think I fixed last night). The Mailman machine has the Mailman web server, as well. (The web server has another specialty task as well.) (I don't think we've used NFS since our founding as an ISP in 1993.) Thus, although we present the same sort of face to the world that you're talking about, the mailing list machine is in fact a normal, self-contained Mailman installation. For outbound list mail, the Mailman machine attempts delivery, and usually succeeds...for most temporary errors it forwards the message over to the mail server farm for retry handling (on the basis that some servers might "like" our regular servers but not the list server, which seems to be the case in practice). Note that we're a smaller operation than you are, Matt. --John ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
