[plug] iinet and email addresses

[Gavin Tweedie]

HAHAHAHAHA

oops :)


On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Neil Hunt wrote:

> I have been on this list for two days, and have already put up with your crap on the linux-aus list.  You really should learn what is appropriate to post to where.  The procmail recipe is in place.  For anyone that wants it here it is:
> 
> :0
> From:^*bret@*iinet.net.au*
> ./dev/null
> just add it to $HOME/.procmailrc and your life will be pleasant again
> Neil
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 05:01:00PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > After assistance from Christian, and about an hour on the phone to iinet
> > support, it appears that the iinet mail settings have been changed, and any
> > iinet customers on the mailing list, can drop their Reply To addresses, as the
> > >From addresses are no longer set by the iinet mail servers, and default to the
> > email address in the user's email application settings.
> > 
> > Using mail.iinet.net.au as the outgoing mail server setting in a user's
> > settings, apparently defaults to a particular preset outgoing mail server (the
> > flavour of the day?), and using mail.m.iinet.net.au as the outgoing mail server
> > setting in a user's settings, apparently sends an outgoing email through the
> > outgoing mail server with the least load, which means that emails sent could go
> > via different outgoing mail servers, depending on the loading on each of the
> > available outgoing mail servers at the time of sending the email.
> > 
> > It's a pity that iinet did not publish these changes, and this information, in
> > their monthly email newsletters to customers.
> > 
> > I think that, given that iinet uses qmail on its mail servers, and given the
> > volume of email that passes through iinet, the previous discussions about qmail
> > and sendmail, relating to qmail not being able to handle high volume, appear
> > resolved, as it appears that qmail handles high email throughput (and the
> > problems with email at iinet, appear to be due to their individual
> > configurations, rather than due to the application). If I am wrong in this, I am
> > sure that Christian, or someone equally knowledgeable, can correct me.
> > 
> > Today's quote:
> > "sendmail.cf is written in a language that you have not seen before elsewhere,
> > and bears no resemblance to any language that you have seen anywhere else, or
> > that you will ever see anywhere else"
> > - quoted by a technical person
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Bret Busby
> > 
> > ........................................
> > 
> 
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