Hi,
Can you let me know if anyone is still experiencing problems with mailing lists?
We are trying to figure out %processed vs. %missing for our mailing lists queue.
Info on which mailing list and when the email was sent would be helpful.
Thanks,
Amy
Amy Roh wrote:
> FYI, the latest update on GlassFish mailing lists delays.
>
> I have reported problems on dev_at_glassfish.dev.java.net and
> persistence_at_glassfish.dev.java.net.
>
> Please let me know if your email didn't get sent to other mailing
> lists as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Amy
>
>> <snip> So, here is the current scenario. Spammers/virus had
>> saturated most of
>> the available smtp connections to Sun's smtp server, asmx1.sfo machine.
>> We can only determine if the email is spam or not after we establish the
>> smtp connection. These smtp connections get maxed out soon. As a
>> workaround it would be possible to increase the # of smtp connections
>> allowed to asmx1.sfo. However there is a capacity problem with the spam
>> filter (Brightmail) which can't handle unlimited number of connections
>> to the filter process. CN operations are trying to minimize the spread
>> of the spam/virus at this point by:
>> 1) Adding known virus subjects to the mail server so that it will reject
>> those mails;
>> 2) Limiting the # of sendmail processes so that we are allowing mail to
>> flow slowly but surely.
>> The Brightmail server as it exists now neither has neither clustering
>> facility nor the Virus scanning ability. The upgrade to the next version
>> of Brightmail promises to reduce the occurrences of such mail delays due
>> to spam/virus attacks.
>> </snip>
>> That said, can you still give me detail regarding mailing lists that
>> are still problematic, please?
>> Looking at persistence_at_glassfish.dev.java.net, which
>> was one of the lists reported as problematic last
>> week, I do see messages from 11/26 and 11/27. Have more messages
>> been sent since? I am also seeing archived messages in the list
>> dev_at_sip-communicator.
>> Note that if you received a system message
>> saying that the message has been deleted from
>> queue, I do not believe that this message
>> will be processed. You should probably resend those messages.
>> Thanks for the updates!
>>
>> Helen
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