LlamaServer fixed

[archaeolept]

as i said above, there was a message in the games on his site about not being able to contact his email server, and that hostings will be delayed until this is resolved. I was just hoping for an explicit update from Llama

[Zeldor]

Hosting times are not moving. And I can't wait for the whole night. I hope it really gets fixed soon or postpones all hostings by 12-24h.

[archaeolept]

well, hopefully the games don't host until the email issue resolves, and then your sent turns will be processed correctly

heh, I emailed him, and got this error:

Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 554 554 5.7.1 : Recipient address rejected: the recipient domain has exceeded our free daily usage limits - try again later

[Innocence]

Originally Posted by archaeolept

the recipient domain has exceeded our free daily usage limits - try again later

Uh oh - we're the cause of the problem

[lch]

Got this from the net:

Gmail has the following limitations on its users :
- You can only send 500 mails in a day. (Thats 500 times hitting the send button)
- There could be maximum 100 unique recipients for a single mail.
- Maximum limit of sent mails is 2000 in a day (for example, sending one message to a group of 100 people twenty times)

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...n&answer=22839

That does sound like "for each individual account", though. llama could circumvent this by having Google Apps host his mail services and creating a new mail account for each game he's hosting. The error message "554 554 5.7.1 : Recipient address rejected: the recipient domain has exceeded our free daily usage limits" seems to indicate that this is counted for the whole domain, though - that would be bad.

[Zeldor]

Huh, llamaserver using gmail account? That would be new thing, they all come from llamaserver.net and I would be surprised if it was hooked up to gmail system. And that problem would occur on 1st day, he is sending quite often more emails than 500 a day.

[Innocence]

Originally Posted by Zeldor

I would be surprised if it was hooked up to gmail system

llamaserver.net MX (mail) record points to hostgator.com.

According to HostGators forums they're having problems caused by hurricane Ike - perhaps that's the reason their mailhosting is behaving badly.

http://forums.hostgator.com/hurrican...-t38304p3.html

[lch]

Originally Posted by Zeldor

Huh, llamaserver using gmail account? That would be new thing, they all come from llamaserver.net and I would be surprised if it was hooked up to gmail system.

Whoops, the mention of Google made me think he is using Gmail. One can get free email services for domains and subdomains from Google through Google Apps.

This here is about Hostgator:

Hostgator hosting permit up to a 200 email sending per hour per domain. If you send over this amount in any hour, most of the e-mails will bounce back with a undeliverable error. That makes 4800 emails daily limit.

[Innocence]

Originally Posted by lch

That makes 4800 emails daily limit.

After Llamaserver implemented the functionality where people could create new games, the number of games have multiplied. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the reason we've hit the limit

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally Posted by Innocence

After Llamaserver implemented the functionality where people could create new games, the number of games have multiplied. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the reason we've hit the limit

We were concerned about that. I created a MakeGame link on my server but never put it into use.
http://www.dom3minions.com/lab/MakeGame.htm
On a direct-connect server like mine the load would by much greater. We were hoping that a PbEM server could handle it better. But the idea that having it TOO easy to make a game would lead to a glut of same games that no one joins was a worry. Are there even threads here pitching most of the games made?

Gandalf Parker