On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Larry Hansford wrote: > At 07:13 AM 2/18/2003, David wrote: > > > >On 13 Feb 2003, Jon Carnes wrote: > > > > > Some folks on the list have hypothesized that this is due to some spam > > > rules setup on hotmail servers (but not consistent across all their > > > servers). > > > > > > Try modifying SMTP_MAX_RCPTS (in the file mm_cfg.py): > > > # Ceiling on the number of recipients that can be specified > > > # in a single SMTP transaction. Set to 0 to submit the > > > # entire recipient list in one transaction. Only used with > > > # the SMTPDirect DELIVERY_MODULE. > > > # SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 500 > > > SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 5 > > > > > > If that works, please let us know. > > > >SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 5 seems to have resolved the problem. The most recent > >post didn't bounce. > > Are there any downsides to setting SMTP_MAX_RCPTS so low? Most of my > lists are between 1,200 and 3,000 members each, and I'm wondering what the > performance hit is to set this so low. > > I've not seen many problems with hotmail accounts bouncing, but fortunately > we have very few of them.
My list had about 50 hotmail accounts out of a total of 300. If anyone has any experience of a higher SMTP_MAX_RCPTS setting and hotmail, I would like to know about it too. "Trial and error" has it's limitations unless it's somebody else making the errors ;-) David ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
