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[Wytze van der Raay <wytze AT cacert.org>]

Hi Benny and others,

On 09/24/2014 09:00 AM, Benny Baumann wrote:
> there finally is a reviewed version of the CCA policy mailing script, to
> be sent out to our users ASAP. The script was reviewed by Dirk Astrath
> and me and is based on the script used in the Heartbleed mailing; except
> for the following changes:
> * No German or other non-English text version
> * Incorporated the speed-up to use 5 Mails per Second
> * Adopted a unique file name for the restart information
> * Some minor clean up in the script
> 
> Execution of the script has been agreed to by Eva.
> 
> The script can be found in the latest version of the release branch as
> scripts/send_policy_cca_20140916.php or attached to this mail.
> 
> Please report any issues with the execution of the script back to
> Software and the Policy Officer.

The mailing script has been started on Sep 24, 09:45 CEST, and it
finished on Sep 25, 06:07 CEST. The total number of messages sent
out was 237.187. Since the system was sending out its regular mails
also, only approximate mail delivery statistics can be shown for
this mailing (compiled from the log with pflogsumm):

 239689   received
 235122   delivered
      1   forwarded
   9786   deferred  (70825  deferrals)
  27462   bounced
      0   rejected (0%)
      0   reject warnings
      0   held
      0   discarded (0%)

   1282m  bytes received
   1312m  bytes delivered
      1   senders
      1   sending hosts/domains
 205452   recipients
  95811   recipient hosts/domains

Currently (Sep 25, 09:15 CEST) there are still some 4400 e-mails
queued for possible later delivery (or eventual failure). The
normal number of queued e-mails is around 50, so nearly all of these
queued mails can be attributed to the CCA mailing.

For a next mail shot, I recommend to use a bit more agressive timing.
While sending out 5 mails/second allowed us to complete this mailing
within 24 hours, my estimate is that the system can handle 10 mails/
second without problems for its regular operations. This would cut
the required time for the mailing in half, to less than 12 hours.

Regards,
-- wytze

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