users@glassfish.java.net

java.net mailing list problem

From: Amy Roh <Amelia.Roh_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:17 -0800

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
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Amy Roh [mailto:Amelia.Roh_at_sun.com]
>> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 6:10 PM
>> To: communityleaders_at_communityleads.dev.java.net
>> Subject: Re: [Community Leaders] Mailing list update
>>
>> Our mailing lists are not working today either since last Tuesday.
>>
>
> This
>
>
>> is a serious blocking issue for our project to operate normally.
>>
>> Any news on this?
>>
>> Let me know if you need more info on failed delivery messages to help
>> resolve this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Amy
>>
>> Emil Ivov wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hello Helen,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> The bad news is that we need to let the
>>>> server continue to process the messages.
>>>> We are looking at upgrading the Brightmail
>>>> servers currently in place. Once the new
>>>> hardware and software is installed, this should improve performance
>>>> on future outbreaks.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Anything new on that one? The situation seems to be getting pretty
>>> serious as some users have reported that their mails to certain
>>> mailing lists are being returned to them.
>>>
>>> I personally also experienced the problem for one of the projects I
>>>
>>
> am
>
>
>>> involved in. Attaching the failure notice.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the assistance
>>> Emil
>>>
>>> -------- Returned Failure Notice --------
>>> Subject: failure notice
>>> Date: 25 Nov 2005 17:31:38 -0000
>>> From: MAILER-DAEMON_at_yahoo.com
>>> To: emil_ivov_at_yahoo.com
>>>
>>> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
>>> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
>>> addresses.
>>> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
>>>
>>> <dev_at_sip-communicator.dev.java.net>:
>>> Connected to 64.125.133.81 but sender was rejected.
>>> Remote host said: 451 4.7.1 Please try again later
>>> I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too
>>>
>>
> long.
>
>
>>> --- Below this line is a copy of the message.
>>>
>>> Return-Path: <emil_ivov_at_yahoo.com>
>>> Received: (qmail 8777 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2005 16:29:37
>>>
>>
> -0000
>
>
>>> DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;
>>> s=s1024; d=yahoo.com;
>>>
>>> h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Accept-
>>>
>>
>> Language:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-
>> Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding;
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>
> b=Z1Mx3zpuAv9Sk5u30TFqM8Sd7o3kBw6neLaJlt9qKWPBR0C9/RzpjPbQlttIIcN3Xs7FWi
> mF
>
>
> 23QoMRzlqkEZQ8pSGwyrFE2d1oMaXjEzUsHKpJxNHxOapPtAYu4x74FAgdj/Ulu2LRb5bwAs
> e5
>
>
>> PvFYNBurUIhXr/WmEYGkgIul4=
>>
>>
>>> ;
>>> Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (emil?ivov_at_82.231.38.150
>>> with plain)
>>> by smtp018.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Nov 2005 16:29:37 -0000
>>> Message-ID: <4385EA6F.2020002_at_yahoo.com>
>>> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 17:29:35 +0100
>>> From: Emil Ivov <emil_ivov_at_yahoo.com>
>>> Reply-To: emcho_at_emcho.com
>>> User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017)
>>> X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
>>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>>> To: dev_at_sip-communicator.dev.java.net
>>> Subject: Re: [sip-comm-dev] Resource sharing service +
>>> internationalization
>>> References: <20051123175903.19266.qmail_at_web33215.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
>>> In-Reply-To:
>>>
>>
> <20051123175903.19266.qmail_at_web33215.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
>
>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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