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14 | <H1>[IRCServices] Email forwarding</H1> | |
15 | <B>Imran Ali Rashid</B> | |
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17 | TITLE="[IRCServices] Email forwarding">u970042 at giki.edu.pk | |
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19 | <I>Mon Jan 22 04:29:46 PST 2001</I> | |
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34 | <PRE>><i> That's my point. _Something_ will choke, be it sendmail, the system | |
35 | </I>><i> (too many processes), or Services SENDPASS (MTA refuses messages due to | |
36 | </I>><i> load). Switching MTAs just moves the problem around. | |
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38 | You're assuming sendmail isn't correctly configured... | |
39 | Configure it properly and it shouldn't choke. | |
40 | I won't go into details about how you're a VERY bad | |
41 | sys admin if this isn't set. :-) | |
42 | In sendmail.cf: | |
43 | MaxDaemonChildren=limit | |
44 | make sure that limit is set and reasonable. | |
45 | ||
46 | About services choking, I think the original idea of having a | |
47 | separate process run via cron say every hour is a better idea. | |
48 | That way, services don't choke. | |
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50 | And if some networks think that this isn't a good idea, make | |
51 | the email address feature a compile time option. | |
52 | ||
53 | Nothing is bullet proof, but everything is manageable. | |
54 | Like the max process limit in sendmail. and the DNS query | |
55 | timeout limit also. | |
56 | ||
57 | ><i> >>Lather, rinse, repeat and watch sendmail choke. | |
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59 | Hmm what other possible problems could there be. How | |
60 | about checking to see if an email address is already in queue. | |
61 | If it is, then don't send the mail again. That should be simple | |
62 | enough. | |
63 | Another thing that could be done is to set a flag in the nickname, | |
64 | to restrict the number of emails. Say one every 10 hours or so. | |
65 | ||
66 | Imran Ali Rashid | |
67 | ||
68 | ----- Original Message ----- | |
69 | From: "Andrew Church" <<A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">achurch at achurch.org</A>> | |
70 | To: <<A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">ircservices at ircservices.za.net</A>> | |
71 | Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 4:15 PM | |
72 | Subject: Re: [IRCServices] Email forwarding | |
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75 | ><i> >>>What part of this is open to resource attacks? | |
76 | </I>><i> >> | |
77 | </I>><i> >>/ns set email <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">some-domain at that.doesnt.resolve</A> | |
78 | </I>><i> >>/ns sendpass | |
79 | </I>><i> >> | |
80 | </I>><i> >>Lather, rinse, repeat and watch sendmail choke. | |
81 | </I>><i> > | |
82 | </I>><i> >Depends heavily on your choice of MTA. Sendmail may behave like this but | |
83 | </I>><i> >Exim [<A HREF="http://www.exim.org/]">http://www.exim.org/]</A> sure doesn't... however putting limits on is | |
84 | </I>><i> >still a good idea due to the extra resources consumed by having N number of | |
85 | </I>><i> >Exim processes waiting for their domain resolvers. | |
86 | </I>><i> | |
87 | </I>><i> That's my point. _Something_ will choke, be it sendmail, the system | |
88 | </I>><i> (too many processes), or Services SENDPASS (MTA refuses messages due to | |
89 | </I>><i> load). Switching MTAs just moves the problem around. | |
90 | </I>><i> | |
91 | </I>><i> >(In case you were wondering, I rather like Exim - readable config files, | |
92 | </I>><i> >completely bulletproof, [...] | |
93 | </I>><i> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | |
94 | </I>><i> Ain't None Such. You mean "not banged on enough". | |
95 | </I>><i> | |
96 | </I>><i> --Andrew Church | |
97 | </I>><i> <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">achurch at achurch.org</A> | New address - please note. | |
98 | </I>><i> <A HREF="http://achurch.org/">http://achurch.org/</A> | \e$B%a!<%k%"%I%l%9$,JQ$o$j$^$7$?!#\e(B | |
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