Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 18:21:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: chat Subject: vmailer and freebsd-chat Message-ID: <199805260121.SAA18235@hub.freebsd.org>
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from time to time, when there is a significant change to the mailing lists, i use -chat as a final testing ground before rolling the change into production. of all the FreeBSD mailing lists, -chat may be the least critical (well...maybe not. its charter says it is .) this is one of those times. i have been experimenting with VMailer from wietse venema of tcp wrappers and satan fame. it seems to be very fast in delivering messages sent to FreeBSD-test (the official test mailing list). test has only some 36 subscribers however. so time to look for a list with a large user base. chat has 251 subscribers. the *only* change is that chat is now using vmailer as its delivery agent. all archiving, digesting, and majordomo features remain unchanged. however, you will see differences in both the Received headers, the mail delivery path and the appearence of a new header: "Delivered-To:". the mail delivery path changes because VMailer does not use sendmail's mailertable, so we will be delviering directly to each MX or host rather than spooling mail through the freebsd.org mail relays. please exmaine the email that you receive from -chat. i am looking for feedback about any breakage, procmail scripts, slocal, etc. so far vmailer looks fine, but we need to place under a little load to help it reveal it true nature. it is not uncommon for the mailing lists to have several thousand messages in the queues due to unreachable sites. moving -chat to VMailer will give VMailer larger queue directories to chew on ;) done be shy to comment ;) jmb ps. you can read about VMailer at http://www.vmailer.org/ -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Core Team, Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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