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Jeff Breidenbach | 1 Apr 2004 04:45

Re: bounce.pl


>The point is that there is really nothing wrong with using SMTP to
>import messages, as long as the user has some way to ensure that the
>forwarded messages end up in the "right" archive.

The strategy you describe is exactly what we currently do.  Yount
contributed the bounce.pl script some time ago; it takes in an mbox
file and sends the results over SMTP. The script does header tricks to
make sure the messages go in the right place, and that the date
doesn't get screwed up. (We use X-Mailing-List rather List-Post, but
that's only because RFC2369 is kind of new and the script is kind of
old.)

The main issue is running a mail-sending perl script requires a
certain level of expertise. It's beyond most Mail-Archive users, and
even very advanced users quite frequently run into trouble.  Plus it's
time consuming on this end helping people when folks run into
trouble. That's why importing is - currently - fairly discouraged in
the FAQ.

-Jeff
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Jeff Breidenbach | 12 Apr 2004 01:08

feedback, feedback, feedback


Ok, time for some more feedback on Mail-Archive, this time
we'll try some structured questions:

 1) How are people doing with the ads on message pages? Is this
    impacting usability in any significant way? Are the ads annoying?
    Hopefully, ads will help Mail-Archive be a more sustainable
    service as it continues to grow without too much of a negative
    impact.

 2) Is everyone happy with archiving latency? I think it's been pretty
    good for quite a while, usually just a few hours.  Would it help
    if it that number was significantly less or not really make a
    difference?

 3) Are people having any problems getting mail to their archives? For
    a while we had our MTA set to really strict settings to keep out
    spam - including some fancy verification for the transmitting
    computer. This turned out to be too strict, in that a few lists
    were being rejected (including gossip!)  So I've relaxed the
    constraints a bit. Has this been causing issues?

 4) Is everyone happy with the level of email address obfuscation?
    Anyone terribly disgruntled?

Cheers,
Jeff
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Ajaya Sharma | 15 Apr 2004 08:22
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Posting a question

Hi,
 Can I post a technical question in this mailing list?

Regards,
Ajaya Sharma
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Jeff Breidenbach | 15 Apr 2004 18:26

Re: Posting a question


> Can I post a technical question in this mailing list?

Yes, if it is a technical question about the Mail-Archive service
itself. For example "What RAID level does the Mail-Archive primary
server use?" Please do NOT ask a technical question about some
unrelated topic.  This is not a place to discuss things like Apache
Tomcat or Java programming problems, for example. See the FAQ entry:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/faq#support

Cheers,
Jeff

PS. We use RAID 10.
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Tony Sleep | 19 Apr 2004 11:58
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filmscanners-vKgAnXiq76u9FHfhHBbuYA== <at> public.gmane.org

Hi,

Are you aware of any reason why  
www.mail-archive.com/filmscanners-vKgAnXiq76u9FHfhHBbuYA== <at> public.gmane.org has no later msgs
archived 
than 3 April 04? I have made no changes at this end. The list has been 
quiet, but there have been 5 posts 9 Apr-17 Apr which ain't there.  

Regards 

Tony Sleep - http://www.halftone.co.uk
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Jeff Marshall | 20 Apr 2004 18:30

RE: filmscanners <at> halftone.co.uk

Tony, we'll look into it and let you know as soon as we find out what is happening with your list.

Jeff Marshall
marshman@...

-----Original Message-----
From:  TonySleep@... (Tony Sleep)
Date:  4/19/04 2:58 am
To:  gossip@...
Subj:  [Gossip] filmscanners@...

Hi,

Are you aware of any reason why  
www.mail-archive.com/filmscanners@... has no later msgs
archived 
than 3 April 04? I have made no changes at this end. The list has been 
quiet, but there have been 5 posts 9 Apr-17 Apr which ain't there.  

Regards 

Tony Sleep - http://www.halftone.co.uk

_______________________________________________
Gossip mailing list
Gossip@...
http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
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Jeff Breidenbach | 26 Apr 2004 06:52

system maintenance tonight


Over the last week the Mail-Archive primary server has gone through
some upgrades. Mainly that was adding some RAM and revising software
to run more efficiently. I also upgraded to the shiny new 2.4.26 linux
kernel. So far, so good.

Tonight (i.e. the next 12 hours or so) Mail-Archive will undergo a
small expansion in storage capacity. Because there is a full data
backup involved the service is in "pause mode." For the next 12 hours
inbound mail will be queued; however existing archives will still be
web accessible. The only thing users should (hopefully) notice is some
archival latency.

Cheers,
Jeff
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Jeff Breidenbach | 26 Apr 2004 17:55

archiving delayed today


Hi all,

One stage of the system upgrade * is taking much longer than
expected. Not sure at the moment when things will finish, but there is
a good chance there will be no archiving today, so inbound mail will
continue to be queued. Will update when there is progress.

-Jeff

* reiserfsck after resizing the filesystem
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Jeff Breidenbach | 28 Apr 2004 07:05

current status, archiving


Hi all,

Let me give you an update. I ended up having unexpected problems
during a disk partition expansion. Currently Mail-Archive is serving
pages off a backup snapshot taken Sunday, and inbound mail has been
queuing since then. I'm proceeding carefully and getting expert advice
from the filesystem vendor - unfortunately this takes time. At this
point I am not actually sure how long until we're processing mail
again, but it could be multiple more days. In summary, the archiving
delay is my fault, we're working to fix it. I apologize and thank you
for your patience. If anyone notices any problems aside from the
archiving delay, please report them immediately.

Thanks,
Jeff
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Jeff Breidenbach | 29 Apr 2004 07:38

down for maintenance


Hi all, it is important that everything is perfect before turning on
archiving again - otherwise we risk a big mess.

One thing I'm doing towards this end is making another partition
copy. I am taking the main webserver off line for a couple of hours so
I can get a copy done in a reasonable amount of time. Should be done
with that and on-line again (but not yet archiving new material) in
about 3 or 4 hours.

Cheers,
Jeff
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