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Subject: Re: Mj2 post confirmation
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ math . uh . edu>
Date: 22 May 1999 12:16:26 -0500
To: nb @ thinkcoach . com
Cc: majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: nb@thinkcoach.com's message of "Sat, 22 May 1999 11:18:28 +0200"
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>>>>> "n" == nb  <nb@thinkcoach.com> writes:

n> Hmm.. I'd really like to have such a feature.

You'd better start writing, since you have a very difficult job ahead of
you and I have less than zero interest in doing it.

n> This report would be generated as soon as at least one attempt has been
n> made for each subscribed email address to transmit the post to the MX
n> host for that address.

That is so MTA dependent it's not funny.  How do you plan to know when the
MTA has done this?

n> The current strategy is that this is done by sendmail or qmail, running
n> either at the remote host or at a smarthost, and Majordomo talks to this
n> MTA via SMTP (which makes it neigh impossible to get at the desired
n> information.)

That is the only reasonable strategy.  Unless of course you want to write a
full MTA in Perl, which you are welcome to do but which I think is an
incredible waste of time.

n> However, I suppose it would be possible to design a way to run sendmail
n> with the -v option and analyze the output that this generates.

Majordomo doesn't ever call an MTA directly.

 - J<


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