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noreply@opensuse.org is quite busy

Added by pjessen over 2 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
Email
Target version:
-
Start date:
2021-08-25
Due date:
% Done:

100%

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Description

Although we actually refuse to receive these and even bounce them with a nice message, we still process about 8-10.000 every day ...
It seems like a lot of unnecessary traffic (which nobody clearly cares about), maybe we should just discard those messages?


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Actions #1

Updated by pjessen over 2 years ago

  • Category set to Email
  • Private changed from Yes to No
Actions #2

Updated by pjessen over 2 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Feedback
Actions #3

Updated by pjessen over 2 years ago

Yesterday:

mx1     mx2      source
--------------------------------------------------
6167    6167     smtp-out[12].suse.de
4       8        eggs.gnu.org
16      13       de-smtp-delivery-222.mimecast.com
-----   ----
6187    6188
Actions #4

Updated by pjessen over 2 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to In Progress
  • Assignee set to pjessen

This morning I redirected some of these to my own address, to see what they are.
Coming from "smtp-out[12].suse.de" many are "OBS Notification", build failures - undeliverable for various reasons. Some are standard postfix notifications of "Delayed Mail (still being retried)".

In the last three months, since June 10, we have received (and rejected) 571416 of these :-)

If OBS really does not care about the delivery status of those notifications, it would be better to use "Return-Path: <>" and avoid a lot of unnecessary traffic. It seems it is not possible to use 'discard' in "handling_special_recipients", so I'll leave it as it is.

Actions #5

Updated by pjessen over 2 years ago

Some more stats:
September, mx12, smtp-out[12].suse.de - 360642
Oktober, mx12, smtp-out[12].suse.de - 193254

November, mx12, 1-7Nov - 275.

Clearly something changed, on 14 October :-)

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