The esteemed Jussi Hirvi has said: > > Hi, list, > > The problem I'm trying to solve is that Hotmail (and probably msn.com) do > not accept our Mailman emails - this seems to be a new phenomenon. The error > code is "too many recipients". From other sources I assume that Hotmail now > accept sonly max 9 recipients per one request, while Mailman's default > maximum is 500. > > I try to solve this by adding > SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 9 > to my mm_cfg.py. > > After Mailman restart, this seems to have no effect on existing lists - like > I expected. > I think you will have to set the limit lower than 9. My list runs with SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 5
It has been a couple of years since I experimented with this, and the problem I was dealing with was that verizon.net would either accept mails immediately or defer them until the MTA expired them. With a limit of 5 recipients, I get good delivery to all of the big mail sites except yahoo.com. They will defer even single-recipient list priority mails during prime time, but deliver them within 24 hours. Read your MTA logs in addition to reading the bounce messages. I have had problems where the bounce message said one thing but the MTA log said something quite different. Hank ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
