[Mailman-Developers] MM Bouncer

Peter C. Norton spacey-mailman@lenin.nu
Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:00:18 -0800


On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:37:36AM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:17:08PM -0800, J C Lawrence wrote:
> > The problem isn't making them work with any MTA -- that's actually
> > fairly trivial.  The problem is keeping IO loads on the host
> > reasonable with VERP with any MTA which is quite difficult.
> 
> I don't see that there *is* any theoretical way to *keep* loads down
> with VERP, by it's very nature.

The only way to make the load a non-issue is to support VERPs in the MTA.  I
know qmail and courier support this.  I wish that more MTA's did.  Does
anyone know if postfix, exim, or sendmail expect to support VERPs?

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