Jan,
I was just wondering why you need to use your ISP as a mail relay.
For speed and security reasons, why not just let your MTA (the one
at your office server) send mail directly.
I hope this is not a stupid question....
Ambo
Jan dela Cruz wrote:
>
> hello. yes. the smarthost is pointed to my ISP's SMTP.
>
> is there any way that i can set sendmail to handle more than 'x' mails at
> one time?
> or is this dependent on the maximum number of recepients my ISP's SMTP
> server?
>
> is sendmail intelligent enough to know that it is a single envelope of email
> but destined to different recepients so it will just send it ONCE to my
> SMTP's ISP, regardless of the number of recepients inside it?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Anthony J. Mercado
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 4:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [plug] multiple recepients, single send via sendmail
>
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Jan dela Cruz wrote:
>
> > is there a way that when my user sends email to mutiple recepients ONCE to
> > my local SMTP, it just sends the same message only ONCE to the ISP's SMTP,
> > and then that ISP SMTP handles the individual recepient sending? just
> like
> > in a very normal end user ideal scenario i mentioned above, since my ISP
> > accepts my email relaying to them?
>
> have you set smarthost to point to your ISP's mailserver?
> in sendmail.cf look for this directive
>
> DS smtp.myisp.net
>
> It may still be possible for your MTA to send more than one copy your
> ISP's mailserver. I've seen this happen if the maximum number of
> recipients of your ISP's mail server is reached. So let's say the maximum
> is 15, sendmail will then split it to 2 mails, 1 with 15 recipients then
> another with 5. No need to worry though, the TO and CC fields are not
> altered.
>
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