LuKreme wrote: >On 15-Jan-2010, at 09:24, Goodman, William wrote: >> I had a user send an email to one of our lists (approx. 700 email >> address), he states that some users received them about (450) and other did >> not. Is there a email address limitation or member limitation? > > >Not in Mailman. > >There are many reasons that a mail may not be received by some members of a >list. > >1) Spam filters on their machines that trap the mail as spam >2) limitations on your sending server on how many emails you can send to how >many people in what amount of time >3) Your server is on an RBL >4) THEIR server is on an RBL >5) They DID receive the mail, they just can't find it >6) DNS issues (yours or theirs) > >There are probably other things.
In addition to the above, check Mailman's smtp-failure log if you can. The 450 number (and exactly how can he know that?) suggests that possibly list delivery was chunked with the default SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 500 and only one chunk was accepted by the MTA. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
