From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 5 16:25:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05574 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:25:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA05544 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:25:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05859; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 17:25:19 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd005848; Thu Feb 5 17:25:18 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA28760; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 17:25:16 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802060025.RAA28760@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: mail.local quota fix To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 00:25:16 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980205161613.28272@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Feb 5, 98 04:16:13 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" > 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 " 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.