[Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without specifying pas swords

[J C Lawrence]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:38:12 -0700 
Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui at plaidworks.com> wrote:

> The real issue here, IMHO, is likely ot be the wonderful
> sendmail/DNS lookup on acceptance delay issue. And I'd suggest the
> way to fix that is to fix the Sendmail module, and have it use
> -Odeliverymode=defer. and use the Smtp module for other MTAs. If
> they want to remote-SMTP to a sendmail MTA, document that they're
> screwed. That's the only way to get around this sendmail
> chokepoint, other than to do what I'm doing, and move to
> postifx...

Would it be so bad if the Mailman FAQ/README read as follows?

  If you are having performance problems and are using sendmail,
  don't bitch to us.  Change to a more capable MTA like Exim,
  or Postfix instead (<insert URLs and pointers to READMEs>.  If you
  are married to sendmail, you can try the following approaches
  <insert references here> but they are NOT recommended and they
  come with a variety of technical tradeoffs that may or may not fit
  your situation.  

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J C Lawrence                                       claw at kanga.nu
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