The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Johann Spies <address@concealed>]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:55:19AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:

> I have replaced majordomo with sympa as our main listserver and it
> worked well on Debian Stable for a few weeks.  Now users are
> starting to complain about Sympa being very slow to deliver mail.  I
> have tested it and it is so.

There is a list "ips" on sympa and there is also a user (the
administrator of the ips list) using ips as username.  The sympa list
address is address@concealed and the second user's email address is
address@concealed.

In the router section (shown below) of exim4 I have the following
which was in the beginning of the router section.  This has caused
email to address@concealed to go to address@concealed and would probably
have created a loop.  I have moved the sympa-routers to much later in
the router section and that has solved this (ips) problem.  It also
seems that sympa's cpu-usage is much more "normal" now.

Now I have a question about the sympa-routers in exim: Would it not be
safer in my setup to put the line "domains = mail3.sun.ac.za" in
everyone of them?  At the moment it is only in "sympa_user".  I am not
quite sure which roles the different routers play in the setup which
make me a bit cautious to do that.

sympa_user:
        driver = accept
        domains = mail3.sun.ac.za
        local_parts = sympa
        transport = sympa_pipe

sympa:
        driver = accept
        require_files = /var/lib/sympa/expl/$local_part
        transport = sympa_pipe

sympa_special:
        driver = accept
        transport = sympa_special_pipe
        local_part_suffix  =  -request : -editor : -unsubscribe
        require_files = /var/lib/sympa/expl/$local_part

sympa_subscribe:
        driver = accept
        transport = sympa_subscribe_pipe
        local_part_suffix  =  -subscribe
        require_files = /var/lib/sympa/expl/$local_part

sympa_owner_bounce:
        driver = accept
        transport = sympa_owner_bounce_pipe
        local_part_suffix = -owner
        require_files = /var/lib/sympa/expl/$local_part

sympa_bounce:
        driver = accept
        local_part_prefix = bounce+
        transport = sympa_bounce_pipe


Regards

Johann
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Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch

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