On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 09:17:27AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > On Dec 17 08:35:28, gil...@poolp.org wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 07:08:17PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > > > I am using smtpd as my mail server on a network > > > where the relay server often replies with > > > > > > 4.5.3 Too many recipients > > > > > > Indeed, I was sending messages with a lot of recipients > > > (a group of students). > > > > > > Is there a way in the smtpd configuration > > > to specify that a message with >N recipients > > > should be broken into N individual messages? > > > > > > > Why so ? > > Because if not, the message is rejected with 4.5.3. > Messages with certain number of recipients just > cannot be sent through this relay. >
Oh, the entire message is rejected ? That's kind of violent... There's a tweak to limit the number of recipients but if we could avoid it, it would benefit everyone. > > Does it prevent OpenSMTPD from sending > > to the recipients it has submitted already ? > > The relay disables my mailserver for some fixed time. > No messages from me will be accepted during that time. > The relay disabling code has been removed, this should no longer happen to you with last snapshot. We will release 5.4.2 in a few days to fix the first shortcomings we experienced from 5.4.1 and this will be part of it. > > It should fail the ones after 4.5.3 and mark them as tempfail > > which will cause them to be retried a few seconds later while > > the ones before the error will be submitted. Isn't that what > > is happening ? > > smtpd tries to resend the failed ones, > only to be told again that there are > "too many recipients". > So not a single recipient is ever accepted ? If that's the case, I'll tell you in private how to fix this and we will have to find a way that works for everyone... > > > If so, will smtpd create a new smtp connection > > > for each of the messages? That could also be a problem. > > > > No, smtpd will always try to group and reuse connections, > -- Gilles Chehade https://www.poolp.org @poolpOrg
