Tasos Kotsikonas writes:
> With so much volume of email going out we need to cut down
> on the number of bounces.
Look into qmail's VERP. VERP will make you happy. Very, very, very happy.
> In fact, our bounce handling code resolves about 99.2% of them (on
> a test of half a million random bounces). But we need to cut down
> on the processing time parsing non-DSN bounces, and indeed DSNs are
> very easy to parse with linear algorithms or better.
VERP (remote bounces) doesn't need to be parsed. And Dan's QSBMF
(local bounces) is much easier to parse than DSNs.
> My apologies to all of you who thought I was trying to stir up the
> waters here. But the similarity of responses I got re: qmail was
> very striking and the message was: use qmail but if your business
> depends on it and you need to get something done by the author,
> well, good luck!
You received bad advice. First, because you are perfectly free to
modify qmail for your own uses. Second, because very often, qmail
really *doesn't* need modification. qmail is designed to play well
with other Unix programs, and can usually be extended without source
hackery or patches.
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