Sandy, The connection is dumped by the provider. What I really need to find out is whether or not there is also a daily limit. If so, this changes things a bit also.
Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sanford Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jeffery Rehm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 18:48 Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Batch Sending > > Can IMail be configured to send emails in batches of say 50 through > > a relay host, or does anyone know of something that will? > > That depends on what kind of rejection the provider is enforcing. > > AFAIR, MS SMTP and Postfix, for two examples, will automatically > re-queue remaining recipients if a "neat" rejection (4xx, preferably > 452) occurs after a RCPT TO:. However, if the ISP is actually dropping > the SMTP connection entirely at that point (5xx) or resetting the > connection at the TCP/IP level, that will be fatal for the entire > session. > > I believe MS SMTP can also be configured, with some fancy loopback > between virtual domains, to ensure that no more than 50 recipients are > ever _attempted_, which would solve your problem but would be a second > resort. > > --Sandy > > > ------------------------------------ > Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist > Broadleaf Systems, a division of > Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! > http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release/ > > Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! > http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/download/release/ > http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/download/release/ > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
