From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: sendmail.el bug or expected behavior?
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:38:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilu1xpqzf0q.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1Ak60D-0000DZ-K9@fencepost.gnu.org
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> I suspect that if the MTA is trying to deliver the message to its
> final destination, then it may hang regardless of what MTA is used.
>
> I would expect people to design an MTAs not to wait very long
> in the process that you created to send the mail. If sendmail
> does this badly, does that mean they all do?
I guess not. But how do MTAs implement this, if they don't wait in
the foreground? Simply storing the e-mail in /var/spool/mqueue and
hope that the system is polling the queue every hour or so might not
be reliable. This approach also has the disadvantage that any errors
that CAN be detected (and reported to the user) immediately, probably
won't be, since /usr/lib/sendmail will always just push the message on
the queue, without doing any error checking or simple delivery
attempts.
Just some thoughts.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-23 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-20 6:14 sendmail.el bug or expected behavior? Rob Browning
2004-01-20 11:53 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-21 9:21 ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-21 18:28 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-01-21 22:33 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-22 19:00 ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-22 19:09 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-23 12:29 ` Ian Jackson
2004-01-23 15:13 ` Jan D.
2004-01-26 11:20 ` Ian Jackson
2004-01-26 13:28 ` Jan D.
2004-01-26 13:40 ` Ian Jackson
2004-01-26 13:50 ` Jan D.
2004-01-26 14:10 ` Ian Jackson
2004-01-26 14:25 ` Jan D.
2004-01-26 14:29 ` Ian Jackson
2004-01-26 14:35 ` Jan D.
2004-01-26 14:42 ` Ian Jackson
2004-01-27 18:49 ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-27 21:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-01-29 17:52 ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-25 14:46 ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-23 18:25 ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-23 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-23 18:38 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2004-01-26 14:09 ` Ian Jackson
2004-01-26 16:21 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-26 18:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-01-26 19:26 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-26 20:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-01-27 18:50 ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-30 4:27 ` Rob Browning
2004-01-30 14:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-01-30 14:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-01-30 14:46 ` David Kastrup
2004-01-30 16:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-01-31 7:51 ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-31 17:26 ` Rob Browning
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