Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 09:56:05 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: hamellr@qcsn.com (Rick Hamell) Cc: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bouncing Email (fwd) Message-ID: <199804011756.JAA15654@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.3.95.980401094453.-220059B-100000@greymouser.circle-path.org> from Rick Hamell at "Apr 1, 98 09:49:34 am"
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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
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