Re: lost messages

Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 16:14:39 -0600


On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 02:06:59PM -0800, george anzinger wrote:
> I just stepped over the line again with a message too long
> for the lklm. Am I the only one who would like a message
> back when lklm drops a message? The mail system seems to
> say:
> relay=vger.kernel.org. [209.116.70.75],
> stat=Sent (2.7.0 nothing apparently wrong in the message.;
> S264820AbSJaKoJ)
>
> and then drop the message. Maybe, at least this response
> could be changed.

Your message makes it to majordomo's resend code and gets bounced to
owner, which is probably not much different from /dev/null. It'd be
possible to add bounce notifications, but it'd be a big ugly hack on
top of a long-dead codebase, work better invested in switching to a
new list manager.

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