Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 10:01:58 -0500 From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail.local quota fix Message-ID: <19980206100158.50669@crh.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199802060025.RAA28760@usr09.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 12:25:16AM %2B0000 References: <19980205161613.28272@crh.cl.msu.edu> <199802060025.RAA28760@usr09.primenet.com>
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On the subject of Re: mail.local quota fix, Terry Lambert stated:
> > 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:").
I believe that is equivilant to removing the small m.
-Crh
Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu
http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich
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