* Stefan Förster <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > I've discovered that the FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/x/rIA9 > mentions to set smtp_mx_session_limit=100. While normally, I would > reject such a suggestion as outright wrong, I noticed that this were > comments made by Barry Knowles, and you don't just ignore hints from > someone with that much experience in mailing lists.
Bary Warsaw or Brad Knowles. According to my knowledge they haven't married. I might be wrong though. It's brad in our case :) > So, what is the reason for that setting? From man 5 postconf: > > ,----[ man 5 postconf | less +/^smtp_mx_session_limit ] > | smtp_mx_session_limit (default: 2) > | > | The maximal number of SMTP sessions per delivery request before > | giving up or delivering to a fall-back relay host, or zero (no > | limit). This restriction ignores sessions that fail to complete > | the SMTP initial handshake (Postfix version 2.2 and earlier) or > | that fail to complete the EHLO and TLS handshake (Postfix version > | 2.3 and later). > | > | This feature is available in Postfix 2.1 and later. > `---- > > While I can certainly imagine larger sites having somewhere between > five to ten MXs, 100 seems a bit... oversized. maybe it tries to set a very hight threshold, thus ALWAYS using ALL MXes? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 [email protected] | http://www.charite.de ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
