QUESTION:
Our mailserver host is running Digital Unix V3.2C. We are running a patch
version of sendmail supplied by Digital 5.65v3.0/IDA-1.5 Sendmail.
What we are finding is that Eudora users who use SMTP are timing out on
sending to long system aliases. Setting their timeout period up gets
around this but I'd like to see it passed off to the server as opposed to
doing immediate address verification. Possible?
ANSWER:
The problem you are describing is Sendmail doing it's verification
and has nothing to do with the popper or Eudora. I have found pointing
eudora at a system that simply redirects the message works very well.
For example, create an alias on one system (A) that redirects the
message to system (B) which contains the broken out list.
A:
largegroup:largegroup_at_B
B:
largegroup:addr1, addr2, addr3, addr4, addr5, ...
This way, the verification takes very little time and sendmail can
process the message at it's leasure.
Eudora is not executing the VRFY or EXPN command. It is definitely
sendmail checking all the addresses. We at Qualcomm had to solve this
problem as well since we have mailing lists of up to 3,000 users.
Thanks to Mark Ericson at QualComm
Received on Thu Mar 21 1996 - 05:52:13 NZST