in our rush hours, when we actually do a major delivery yes we can have
that many bounce back, the highest I have seen is that.. especially
when there is problems on the network, though as of late I have it
under control (by the way this is exim 3.36, lots of work to convert to
4.)
Though the first time I modified qmail it had the ability to do 1000
mail processes, which could just crush the server, actually I still
don't know how bad it was the network connections between the two
machine was maxed out, until I killed the sending server so I could
reduce the send rate.
Needless to say I have received in spurts 248 messages in a second, on
occasion.. Though the numbering I see is very sequential anyways
(00,01,02,03,04,05,06,07...37,38,39,40), Unless I am missing
something.
jason
On 3 Feb 2003 at 10:10, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Jason Robertson wrote:
>
> > In future versions the unique message number might be more advisable
> > to go with Hex, it may offer a larger range from 00-99
>
> It is already in base 62, offering the range 00-zz (0-3883).
>
> > I wouldn't want to see it roll over at 99, but i have seen message
> > such as 18ewIL-0008FW-00 to -40's.
>
> That's (to me) surprisingly large, because 40 in base 62 = 248 decimal.
> Did you really receive that many messages in a second (assuming you
> weren't setting localhost_number)? Wow.
>
> --
> Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
>
>
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Jason Robertson
Now at the Nation Research Council.
