Re: [Mimedefang] MaxRecipientsPerMessage

2004-04-14 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
> Are you saying that you simply forward for these 20 mail servers with no clue as to who is a valid user on those servers? > > If that is the case, you may want to implement some way of dumping user names on each target's LDAP systems and creating a virtusertable to validate email addresses. Could

RE: [Mimedefang] MaxRecipientsPerMessage

2004-04-14 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > What is a good value to use for MaxRecipientsPerMessage > > > > > (MAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE) for sendmail? > > > 100 > > How did you arrive at that number? One interpertation of RFC 2821 would make it a requirement that 100 be the minumum that i

Re: [Mimedefang] MaxRecipientsPerMessage

2004-04-14 Thread Jon R. Kibler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The problem is that the system filters for 20+ destination mail servers, > with no common directory. I may try to implement LDAP lookups in sendmail > in the future, but that will be complicated by tryinig to figure out how > to query the right server depending on the

Re: [Mimedefang] MaxRecipientsPerMessage

2004-04-14 Thread WBrown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/13/2004 03:47:36 PM: > The problem with this option is that if you are using a single host > or configuration for both inbound and outbound mail, then the limit > will also apply to your users. If you use it, 5 is probably as good > of value as any under these cir

RE: [Mimedefang] MaxRecipientsPerMessage

2004-04-14 Thread WBrown
> > > > What is a good value to use for MaxRecipientsPerMessage > > > > (MAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE) for sendmail? > 100 How did you arrive at that number? In my reading of the book _sendmail_ by Eric Allman, any recipients beyond the limit set by this will get tempfailed and mail system following

RE: [Mimedefang] MaxRecipientsPerMessage

2004-04-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
> > What is a good value to use for MaxRecipientsPerMessage > > (MAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE) for sendmail? 100 We set it to 50 about a year ago to make some other host on campus happy. Put it this way- I have not thought about it since. Joseph Brennan Academic Technologies Group, Academic Informatio

RE: [Mimedefang] MaxRecipientsPerMessage

2004-04-13 Thread Matthew . van . Eerde
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > What is a good value to use for MaxRecipientsPerMessage > > > (MAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE) for sendmail? 100 ___ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: [Mimedefang] MaxRecipientsPerMessage

2004-04-13 Thread Jon R. Kibler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Because we are getting hit with a lot of spam that is sent to many > recipients at once. It seems like this would limit how much of it we are > going to accept on one message. > > Also, is there any way to limit RSET commands on the same connection? > perhaps onl;y al

Re: [Mimedefang] MaxRecipientsPerMessage

2004-04-13 Thread WBrown
> > What is a good value to use for MaxRecipientsPerMessage > > (MAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE) for sendmail? > > > > To answer that question, you have to know: >Why do you want to use it? >What are you trying to accomplish by using it? Because we are getting hit with a lot of spam that is sent

Re: [Mimedefang] MaxRecipientsPerMessage

2004-04-13 Thread Jon R. Kibler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What is a good value to use for MaxRecipientsPerMessage > (MAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE) for sendmail? > To answer that question, you have to know: Why do you want to use it? What are you trying to accomplish by using it? Jon -- Jon R. Kibler Chief Techni