2 ppl replied. Both said to upgrade to sendmail 8.8.1. Thing is, the
last
time I checked, Digital will only provide support for their own version
of
sendmail (5.something) - has this sad state of affairs changed? I'm
being asked to stick with the supported version of sendmail.
- D.
Original message:
> Every so often, I need to send a bulk mailing to registrants of an
> acquisitions mailing list; this can be anywhere from 100 addresses to
> 1000.
>
> Occassionally, when sending these messages to the list via a small
> perl
> script I've written, some recipients receive no body in the e-mail
> they
> receive.
>
> What could be going wrong? Am I overloading sendmail? To fix what I
> suspected was the problem (sending too much to sendmail at once), I
> put
> a delay of 10 seconds between each message submission to sendmail.
> Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't; so I'm completely confused
> about whether or not this even has an effect - or is it the humidity?
> I'm baffled.
>
> It's a tough problem to replicate. And a nasty problem in general,
> because, it being acquisitions e-mail, it's crucial that all
> recipients
> who've provided valid e-mail addresses receive their e-mail(s) - would
> be unfair if some received them and some didn't.
>
> Someone recommended that I use Majordomo - but as far as I know,
> majordomo simply sends everything, brute force, to sendmail without
> any
> intelligence. I've heard ListProc can give sendmail a breather - will
> the free version of ListProc 6.0 do this? (does it even run on Digital
> Unix 4.0?)
>
> (There's something in the Majordomo FAQ about alpha users having
> problems with Majordomo - what might those be?)
>
> I don't quite need all the functionality of a full-blown mailing list
> program; just need to ensure that members of a mailing list get the
> e-mail I send them.
> Maintenance of the mailing list itself is done by other scripts; it's
> the delivery which is giving me a headache.
>
> Any advice/pointers will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Dana
>
Received on Mon Dec 01 1997 - 14:44:12 NZDT