Vincent Pelletier:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:36:35 -0400 (EDT),
> Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote :
> > This would require a new setting, for example to make smtp_bind_address
> > failures a retryable error.
> >
> > smtp_bind_address_failure_action = warn (or defer)
> >
> > warn: current behavior
> > defer: treat as a faiilure to connect
>
> This looks like something I would want to use in my situation. Does the
> implementation complexity and maintenance cost look reasonable to you,
> for what seems to be a rather niche use (otherwise someone else would
> certainly have done the same mistake before) ?
It does not complicate the code. I am more concerned about
discoverability (how would a user even find out that the behavior
has become configurable).
A popular approach in OSS is to enable incompatible changes by
default. I hate that.
Wietse
> Until this is available, I will follow what Viktor suggests: monitoring
> and dynamically deferring emails, and notify me of the issue while at
> it. The email rate on this system should be low enough that the monitor
> will notice the issue before any significant volume went through.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Vincent Pelletier
> ERP5 - open source ERP/CRM for flexible enterprises
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