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Re: Looping messages




On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Andy Poling wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Tom Samplonius wrote:
> [...]
> > > You should never (ever) forward postmaster to a remote address for exactly
> > > this reason.
> > > 
> > > I consider this in the realm of common sense, but just in case that's not
> > 
> >   That just silly.  If you got 4 mail servers, who's going to maintain a
> > postmaster mailbox on each server?
> 
> If you have 4 mail hosts then you ought to have a postmaster whose job it is
> to monitor those 4 systems and read mail to the postmaster/postoffice on
> each of them.
> 
> This too is common sense...
> 
> Arguments to the contrary that begin with something like "but our postmaster
> is too busy" will be summarily ignored since they are just symptoms of a
> deeper illness.  Servers need to be monitored for errors/failures - anybody
> who tells you otherwise is probably trying to sell you a server...
> 
> -Andy

  What is better, Zmailer requiring lots of admin intervention, or little
admin invention?

  Common sense seems to dictate that less time is better.

  Then why do you object to something that would make Zmailer more robust,
and require less intervention?

Tom