Pete,
Sorry for the delayed response, I have been playing around with filtering my cueman mailbox to siphon off the spam and rout other legit mails other places, all the usual excuses apply!
Thanks for your reply but I use qmail without choplist. If I hang in here long enough, I would like to replace choplist with a call to mysql or some such data base and handle everything from there (assuming a data base would be fast enough or at least tolerable) and then good-bye choplist.
As far as aol, they finally did respond to my trouble ticket about a week and a half later. I opened the ticket when I found in my log files successful deliveries to aol and then the aol customer never receiving the mail....aol lost it. So the response I got was the test mail I sent to aol was received and they could find nothing wrong that might trigger their 'filters'. That is all I could get out of them. That is consistent with my mail customer and I suspecting aol has spam filters going that mistakenly catch legit emails. I suspect that is what is going on.
The solution: Refer aol customers having trouble with their email accounts to me, I could use some more email customers!;^)
Thanks again,
--Paul
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Peter Hartzler wrote:
Paul --
After a brief grep of the manual, and the sources and rc.init, I suspect you might get some joy out of playing with choplist's run-time parameters (supplied on the command line); overriding it's default values... These are:
minnames = 32 # minimum number of names per call mindiffnames = 8 # minimum for maxnames-minnames maxnames = 64 # maximum number of names per call maxsplits = 0 # maximum number of parts to split dist in maxsize = 200000 # maximal disk space to be taken up per mail maxconcur = 4 # maximum number of concurrent sendmail calls
Perhaps lowering maxnames would help?
Perhaps a look at the source would help -- this certainly isn't over-documented. The source is multigram.c -- this one program does quintuple duty, as choplist, flist, idhash, multigram and senddigest.
I'm gearing up for a FAQ update, and I'd like to include this one, so keep me posted if you find anything.
Regards,
Pete. SmartList FAQ: http://www.hartzler.net/smartlist/
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Paul Thomas wrote:
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, B & A wrote:
Hi all,
Per Philip's (with ONE ell) advice, I am including some text from the bounce messages I am receiving daily from Yahoo and MSN. My list of over 12,000 opt-in susbcribers is not being fully delivered to these mail hosts because I am getting these bounce message. Does anyone know how to modify choplist
Any ideas anyone?
Well AOL seems to be doing a similar thing only they don't send back bounce messages, they just send your deliveries off to the bit bucket without notifying the recipient or the sender.
I have lost a customer do to this. Their reasoning was that my by the book, completely compliant with the Internet electronic mail protocals, did not work with AOL even though it is AOL's fault.....after all, 33 million AOL subscribers can't be wrong, right?
Could this be a trend where the big guys get bigger by 'breaking' the 'Net for the little guys? Is it time to petition to big guys to go build their own Internet if they don't like the way this one works?
--Paul the Cueman
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