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From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri Jun 18 11:22:33 2004

On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 15:59, der Mouse wrote:
> >> [...greylisting...]
>
> > Going from memory, we have a Majordomo-based mailing list on a
> > windows machine for the museum email list, using whatever Microsoft's
> > email server software is called these days. It wouldn't cope with
> > resending to people using greylisting, and so messages from the
> > mailing list never got delivered.
>
> The problem here is with the broken software you were using, not with
> greylisting. Anything calling itself a mailer that refuses to queue
> and retry when faced with a soft failure is so broken it should not be
> let out of the intranet


Oh I totally agree. But given the number of commercial sites using said
software it's worth being aware of the problems in adopting greylisting,
in that you may suddenly find yourself not receiving important emails
(due to their choice of software, not anything wrong with greylisting
itself)

> - and I would argue shouldn't be used there
> either, given how many other things they probably got wrong too.

I'd quite like to move the museum mailing list onto one of the servers
at the museum (which means we'd have archives on site, amongst other
useful things), but there are just too many other things to do at the
moment. Currently one of the volunteers runs it from home.

Nothing can be done at the museum end until the remote admin side of
things is sorted though. I've got a list about a mile long of useful
things that need doing, but with only a handful of volunteers able to
devote a few hours per week these things take time. We need more people!

cheers,

Jules
Received on Fri Jun 18 2004 - 11:22:33 BST