persistence@glassfish.java.net

Re: java.net mailing list problem

From: Michael Bouschen <Michael.Bouschen_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:36:18 +0100

Hi Amy,

I still have a problem with the persistence mailing list.

Yesterday I sent a message to two persons directly and cc'ed the list
(subject "EJBQL aggregates return type", date "Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:48:09
+0100"). Up to now I did not get my own message and it does not show up
in the mailing list archive. One of the persons I mailed directly
responded and his reply is available on the list! The only difference I
see is that my email included a jar attachment. Is this a problem?

Regards Michael

> 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
>>
>>
>