From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Apr 1 09:56:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA15663 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 09:56:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA15654; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 09:56:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmb) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199804011756.JAA15654@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Bouncing Email (fwd) In-Reply-To: from Rick Hamell at "Apr 1, 98 09:49:34 am" To: hamellr@qcsn.com (Rick Hamell) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 09:56:05 -0800 (PST) Cc: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rick Hamell wrote: > > grr......in sendmail v.8 (what freebsd uses, as well as many > > if not most of the internet) you can reconfigure it to be > > more or less resource intensive. > > > > please do not blame either sendmail or its behavior for the > > configuration that you are running. you are free to > > set the rate at which you will accept mail > > set the rate at which you will attempt to deliver mail > > how long you will wait before bouncing mail > > from whom you will accept mail > > for whom you will relay mail > > and many other options > > Thankyou, I was simply trying to simplify the process for people > on this list, as it is Freebsd-NEWBIES, not freebsd-yearsofexperience. > Perhaps I should have said, 'sending E-mail tends to be resource > intensive' I'm not blaming Sendmail for anything, it's a great piece of > software, though I understand even the author of it needs to rely on third > party referances as to how it works, because of how complicated the > program is. one step in moving from NEWBIES to yearsofexperience (as opposed to continualy repeating first year) is taking responsibility for one's own machine and one's own software configuration.....its a whole new world to those coming from "blue screen of death" and "reboot please". jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message