Hotmail debounce

This isn't really news anymore, but I just debounced Hotmail, so 
you'll see it in your status reports.  Sigh.

For those unfamiliar with the continuing stooooory, Hotmail 
periodically rejects mail that a normal site would just delay.  This 
kicks them off the Phoenyx lists (they get a regular nag asking 
them to resub or confirm that they want off, and most come back).

This happens often, and there's no really good solution.  Other than 
going back to what we once did, and banning Hotmail 
subscriptions up front.  (Thoughts?  This won't prevent anyone from 
subscribing, but the hassle may make them think twice and not 
bother.)

(This just in... while I was writing this, Hotmail started bouncing 
again.  So I'm leaving it alone.  They'll get nags.)

I may just write a loop into the error handler that will turn around 
and resend the message.  Dunno what this'll do to server load, 
though.  (Carl... can sendmail be called with a starting delay?)

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Hotmail debounce

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Karen Cravens wrote:

> (Carl... can sendmail be called with a starting delay?)

Like dump it in the mqueue for delivery during the next queue run?  Or are
you talking like "don't deliver this for 24 hours to give Hotmail time to
fix itself"?  If you're using sendmail on the command line, you could use
'at' to specify a time for calling sendmail, but you'd have to leave the
message file somewhere until the command is run.

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