In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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).