On Sunday 09 March 2003 03:54, Anand Buddhdev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RFC 2821 sets a limit on the number of recipients in a > single SMTP transaction to 100. Courier's esmtp client > therefore defaults to 100, and it's not a good idea to > set this higher, as some SMTP servers out there will > reject the additional recipients.
Thanks again for the explanation. I guess the prudent thing to do leave batchsize and MAXRCPT at 100 and not mess with them. > maxrcpts in bofh is for *incoming* email, and defines how > many recipients courier's SMTP server will handle, before > rejecting the rest. The RFC 2821 recommended value is > 100, and you should not set it lower. No I would not set it lower. But why not set it higher? When someone wants to send out news of their latest exploits to 300 of their closest friends and relatives, is there a reason not to let them connect and send courier one message with 300 recipients? If all the addresses are BCC: (which I insist on in these cases) then the header never grows out of control. For the moment I've told folks to split the messages into multiple copies where each copy has fewer than 100 recipients. But inevitably someone forgets and then wants to know which of the 120 addresses they sent to went out out and which didn't (since all Outlook tells you is that "Some of the recipients of this message were rejected by the server.") So my desire it to set "maxrcpts=500" (or some other obscenely high number) and then if they forget to BCC the addresses the whole thing will "bounce back" to them because the headers exceed the limit and they can resend the entire message using BCC. But this way they know that no one has received this message. Am I going to regret that decision? Jeff Jansen IVB ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
