[Mailman-Developers] before next release: disable backscatterin default installation

[Jason Pruim]

On Mar 25, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Eino Tuominen wrote:
> Mark Sapiro wrote:
>>
>> Well, it does simplify the MTA's job. Instead of all that queueing  
>> and
>> retrying and such, you just have during SMTP (hold on a minute  
>> while I
>> attempt to deliver this to the next hop and return that result to
>> you)*N, a system that doesn't seem to scale well. Either that or you
>> just forget the concept that the originator of a message can ever be
>> informed of a delivery problem.
>
> You are missing the point. Of course you can inform of a delivery
> problem, but only when you really need to do it. Every organisation
> should know of every recipient within their authority. You should know
> the recipient if you accept a message for delivery from outside your  
> domain.

But how would you scale that to the size of say... yahoo? Multiple  
data centers around the world, all processing mail for different  
domains under yahoo's control... How would one be able to synchronize  
all that data from tons of different places like that?

>
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