On Saturday 08 March 2003 20:00, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > See the settings MAXDELS and MAXHOST in > /etc/courier/module.esmtp. MAXDELS is the absolute > maximum number of outgoing connections made by the esmtp > client. MAXHOST is lower than MAXDELS, and is the maximum > number of connections made to any specific host. > > So you want MAXDELS=6 and MAXHOST=2.
Thanks Anand. I didn't realize that you could set the parameters in those files. But I changed the values and I saw the changes reflected in the logs when courierd started up. So I learn something new every day! So what is the relationship between the "MAXRCPT" setting in module.esmtp and the batchsize file? According to the documentation it seems to me that these both specify the same thing - maximum number of recipients for single message. But my batchsize file has a different number in it than MAXRCPT and courierd starts up the esmtp module with MAXRCPT rather than batchsize. And does this have anything to do with the maxrcpts setting in bofh? My understanding is maxrcpts in bofh is the max recipients on incoming messages and batchsize (and maybe MAXRCPT) is the max recipients on messages that courier tries to deliver. So in the case of maxrcpts in bofh courier will reject all the other recipients. Whereas in the case of batchsize courier will copy the message until it can break the recipient list up into groups smaller than the batchsize setting. Am I correct here? And where does MAXRCPT fit in. And why you're explaining all this to me, can you tell me why I should care about these numbers? It is strictly a DOS safe-guard so that no one can crash my server by sending a message with 1000's of recipients on it? Is it a guard against spammers? And why should I want courier to make copies of messages that have more than X recipients rather than just deliver the message "as-is". Thanks for the lesson. I really appreciate all I learn here. Jeff Jansen ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
