[Mailman-Developers] MM Bouncer

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:00:18AM -0800, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> 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?

Yes, but he *did* say "IO Load".

If I'm sending 100 copies to @aol.com, without VERP, I send the message
once.

With VERP, I have to send it 100 times.

Right, JC?

Cheers,
-- jra
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