Re: [MacPerl] RE: Porting Majordomo

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 09:43:35PM -0800, Brian McNett wrote:
} >Not a good solution in this case.  If you're sending mail to mailing lists,
} >you *will* have mail that can't get through for one reason or another.  You
} >will also have to handle bounces.  You'll wind up writing an entire SMTP
} >server (think queue management, retry schemes, etc.) in Perl to handle all
} >the details.
} 
} Actually, Majordomo seems to handle bounces on it's own.  One of the 
} problems with the current Majordomo, is that it uses Perl4 syntax, and 
} makes no use of the many good modules now available.  There are a host of 
} things that could probably be done better with LWP.  Porting to MacPerl 
} becomes very much tied up in porting to Perl5.

I'm sure it does, but you have to receive the bounces before you can
handle them.  That means either majordomo listens on port 25 for them
itself or you're running an SMTP server which handles that for you.
The latter is preferred, especially under MacOS where you can't just
fork off another copy of perl to handle things.


-- 
Paul Schinder
schinder@pobox.com

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