On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> P.S. This is NOT a hypothetical. I do indeed run Sendmail on one box
> with MaxRecipientsPerMessage configured to 1.
>From the DRUMS SMTP-update document, section 4.5.3
The minimum total number of recipients that must be buffered is 100
recipients. Rejection of messages (for excessive recipients) with fewer
than 100 RCPT TO commands is a violation of this specification. The
general principle that relaying SMTP servers MUST NOT, and delivery SMTP
servers SHOULD NOT, perform validation tests on message headers suggests
that rejecting a message based on the total number of recipients shown
in header fields is to be discouraged.
I have a few problems with "the general principle that [...] delivery SMTP
servers SHOULD NOT, perform validation tests on message headers".
-j
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