Grant Edwards wrote: > Leo Vegoda <l...@bind.org> wrote: > > Todd Hesla wrote: > >> > >> Thanks for your reply. I guess this would work, in principle. > >> However, I think it would involve quite a bit of keyboarding/mousing > >> to massage the original long comma-separated list of addresses into > >> multiple Bcc headers. Is there, perhaps, a build parameter that can > >> be reset to increase the 5000 character limit, so I can just paste > >> the long list into a single Bcc header (without anything getting > >> stripped off)? > > > > You should be prepared for mail servers to reject a message with 300 > > recipients in Bcc. The minimum required in the standard is 100 > > and servers are entitled to reject when more are specified: > > That's an SMTP limitation, right? > > I take it mutt does not handle a messsage with a large number of > recipients by breaking up the send operation into multiple SMTP or > sendmail transactions each of which only attempts to specify 100 > recipients? > > [IMO, mutt is simply the wrong tool for doing mass-emailing, so I'm > not faulting mutt for not handling messages with >100 recipients.]
I worked this out for an emergency mass-mailing, it worked well. Sendmail sends individual messages, in this case with a Bcc: having just under 825,000 characters. Note that the message text must be terminated properly (a dot "." on a line by itself). cat message.txt | /usr/sbin/sendmail -f"j...@example.edu" \ -F"John Doe" -t -OMaxHeadersLength=820000 This _might_ be a useless use of cat, mea culpa. -- Charles Polisher
