Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 00:25:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail.local quota fix Message-ID: <199802060025.RAA28760@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19980205161613.28272@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Feb 5, 98 04:16:13 pm
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> With the mail.local quota fix, and indeed sendmail in general, if in the > Mlocal conifugration in /etc/sendmail.cf, the m option causes a message to > fail for all (large chunk) recipients if any one fails. This is really bad in > the quota case, one failed quota, message is bounced for all recips, and > generally really annoying when sending outbound mail and you typo one address. > > The solution is to remove the m option from the F= on Mlocal, and I believe we > should do this for the general FreeBSD case, and perhaps make a note that if > you are planning on extremely high volume mail services you might want to put > it back. (Although in that case, I would think one would deliver to the queue > first anyway, and let sendmail do its thing, in which case it shouldnt hurt > too badly). > > Thoughts, opinions, tar'n'feathering? Put a '1' in the "F=" for the "Mlocal" mailer in sendmail.cf, and sendmail will deliever only one address per message to the mail.local programat a time. This will also have the side effect of putting valid 'for <user@host>" values on your "Received:" timestamp lines (truly a win if you are using a multidrop mailbox accessed via popper or fetchmail, and a necessary part of virtual domain hosting without serious hacks to support "X-Envelope-To:"). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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