[Mimedefang] Re: On pinheaded ISP's (sort of OT)
Kevin A. McGrail
kmcgrail at pccc.com
Wed Jan 31 16:49:31 EST 2007
> Is 'your' queue better than everyone else's? Why not do a 4xx tmpfail
> if your address check temporarily fails? Any real MTA should be
> prepared to queue and retry.
Yes, frankly, it is better than the vast majority of mail queue's out there.
1 - Call me a control freak but if I *can* control mail delivery, I will. On a daily basis, I deal with a lot of pinhead email admins and removing unknowns from a model is best.
2 - If we have a customer moving, then we can use mailertables to redirect their email as an in-between hop without ANY downtime due to DNS poisoning
3 - If we have a customer down, we can deliver their email to a mailbox for them to access via webmail.
4 - If we have a customer down, I can immediately trigger a dequeue of their email without waiting on servers to retry delivery in an unknown amount of time that can range into hours or even days.
5 - I care a LOT about FPs. I'd rather get 100 spams than 1 FPs. Email is critical to what I and my customers do and losing email through collateral damage is not acceptable.
Regards,
KAM
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