blacklist problems

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007, Net Llama! wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, David Bandel wrote:
...
>> The admins of those servers need to read the RFCs for mail and
>> reconfig their servers properly.  Normally, after 4 hours
>> (configurable, but for the 20+ years I've admin'd mail servers, this
>> is customary), the sender would get a notification that mail was
>> delayed, but the server would continue trying for X number of days
>> (the X normally being about 5, but again configurable), not X number
>> of attempts.  I assume the blatant disregard for the RFCs comes from
>> M$ servers.
>
>Actually, it was a Linux server, and it was from a mailing list.  mailman 
>was configured to only accept X bounces/retries.

Personally, I hate mail servers that send out delayed messages
every four hours, particularly with mailing list traffic where
the Precedence is bulk.

Bill
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