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on Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:25:25PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > 1. They limit you to 100 recipients at a time
> 
> This is a fairly standard configuration for _any_ mailserver. You should
> probably be generating individual messages anyway.

Excuse me! Bollocks to that.

> > 2. If your 100 recipients includes an invalid bigpond address, they 
> > reject all 100 and you have to get rid of the offending recipient(s). I 
> > suppose this makes sense - forcing senders to clean up their list - 
> > although one does hope that the problems are real invalid addresses and 
> > not some further problem with the bigpond email system itself.
> 
> Again, pretty normal. It's not like you want the mail server to say
> "delivery to some recipients failed, but some were sent successfully."
> Again, individual messages are the way to go.

Poppycock. Even without going into practical considerations, the RFCs
disagree with you.

PS. Hope my language isn't too strong (I've known Craig for a number of
years, so I assume he won't take offence).