[Mailman-Developers] an opinion about using port 25

[Dan Ohnesorg, admin of POWER]

On 25 Jul 98, at 0:59, Gergely Madarasz wrote:

> As I said in one of my previous postings... sendmail can be called from
> the command line to talk SMTP just like as connected to port 25 
> (sendmail -bs). I expect most other MTA's have the same features, with
> perhaps a bit different command line. So the only difference between using
> a local MTA and connecting to port 25 would be to open a two way pipe to
> 'sendmail -bs' or whatever (all sendmail-compatible mta-s, like exim or
> smail should have sendmail -bs) instead of connecting to port 25. All the
> rest is the same. So the only change needed here would be in the connect
> function of smtplib -> not a mailman issue but a python issue :) 
> This would be much-much nicer than mailman trying to queue mails.

I have made patch, which uses delivery status notification. This 
will be probably included in some of next revision. I have not 
found some posibility, how detect ob MTA knows this feature, 
other than parsing respond to EHLO request. Delivery status 
notification is very nice feature, I am using only notify=failure and 
the list is shielded before warnigs like, mail was not delivered 
within 4 hours and so.


cheers
dan

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