Re: a few suggestions / vmailmgr server wide?

On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 02:17, Marco Paganini wrote:
> > 1) when somebody (human) answers to the ASK-confirmation mail, he should
> > get some feedback from ASK, like "ok, you've been added to my whitelist
> > and all your mails (+list) have been delivered".   (could be based on
> > user configuration in .askrc)   I saw it was on the SF tracker: I just
> > think it's an "urgent" issue :)
> 
> OK. This is not hard to implement at all. Do you want to know what is the
> worst part in adding this to the project? Getting the translations!  I'd
> have to create a new template and beg all those who kindly translated the
> blacklist template to translate this new file to their native language. :)
> But I'll look into it.

my hint: Don't worry about translation: just put the english version in
all files, and you will magically get the translations later, for the
next update...   I can help with french and german ASAP if you need: you
can reach me by mail or AIM: swix3k. 


> > 3) if I send 3 mails to somebody "ask-protected" and I'm not on his
> > whitelist, I will get 3 confirmation requests (same sender, same
> > recipient):
> > 
> >   8 Feb 04 John  Please confirm (conf#223fa130c65fd54ddfa1a468a4fafd57)
> >   9 Feb 04 John  Please confirm (conf#c7d3b43a220e988a2e53accfff862cb7)
> >  10 Feb 04 John  Please confirm (conf#054597a23e55d44b1ad9b151c491ff8d)
> 
> ASK will eventually stop sending mails to a given subscriber after five or so
> emails. This will last until a number of emails from other people come in to
> push the "offending" addresses off a FIFO. You can play with those thresholds
> if you like.

mmm, where is then this setting ? I don't see it in .askrc (but not
looked very long).

> > Don't you think only one would be enough? For example there could be a
> > setting: maximal frequency of confirmation request: max 1 per hour, 1
> > per day or one per week...  (like good mailresponders works). 
> 
> The original design was to keep all messages queued and require a
> confirmation for each. This is so due to performance reasons (some people
> keep thousands of messages in their queue). I believe there's even a feature
> request on this.

Another problem: I've been away one week, and now the ASK queue has
about 1000 mails, with 990 of the same "person" in it.  Using the remote
commands I get a list of the 1000 mails... 

It would be _much_ nicer if it could send a list of _UNIQUE_ email
addresses pending. If an address has got many emails, just display
a sample set of the Subjects (for example the last 5 or 10 ones). 

Otherwise I would have to click 990 times on the html link: that
is not very nice... don't you think? :)  Do you see what I mean?


regards,
Olivier





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