On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 09:28:59AM +0000, Jeff Jansen wrote:

> On Sunday 09 March 2003 03:54, Anand Buddhdev 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > RFC 2821 sets a limit on the number of recipients in a
> > single SMTP transaction to 100.  Courier's esmtp client
> > therefore defaults to 100, and it's not a good idea to
> > set this higher, as some SMTP servers out there will
> > reject the additional recipients.
> 
> Thanks again for the explanation.  I guess the prudent thing 
> to do leave batchsize and MAXRCPT at 100 and not mess with 
> them.  
> 
> > maxrcpts in bofh is for *incoming* email, and defines how
> > many recipients courier's SMTP server will handle, before
> > rejecting the rest. The RFC 2821 recommended value is
> > 100, and you should not set it lower.
> 
> No I would not set it lower.  But why not set it higher?  

I don't see a problem with setting it higher, as long as it's not too
high, otherwise courier's esmtpd could be DOSsed with a large number
of recipients. 500 seems ok to me.

-- 
Anand Buddhdev
http://anand.org


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