CAcert Code Development list.

[Eva Stöwe <estoewe AT cacert.org>]

Hello,

thank you all for your great help.

On the timing:
I do not think that we need an increased mail rate for something as policy
informations. This is not time-critical in the sense that 24h make a real
difference. In such a case it is muche more important to consider how to
prevent that mails are marked as spam by automated spam-filters.

This may be something else if a mailing is about security relevant
information.

On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 09:19:34 +0200, Wytze van der Raay 
<wytze AT cacert.org>
wrote:
> 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

-- 
mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards
Eva Stöwe
CAcert Assurer
CAcert Arbitrator & Case Manager
CAcert.org - Free Certificates
E-Mail: 
estoewe AT cacert.org