On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 23:32 +0100, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Other question was - but probably it's implementation dependend - how > the sender would behave. Does anybody know what exim would do. Restart > the SMTP transfer with agin all 300+ recipients if recipient 300 times > out? Or would exim try to reduce the number of recipients? (feature > request?)
If it's a well-behaved MTA which respects the fact that the previous connection never reached a positive conclusion (ie. didn't receive a "250 OK" result for the entire transaction after sending the defined "message ends" signal, ".<CRLF>") then it should start the whole thing again after an appropriate delay. Those who are interested should read Ch.30 of the docs: http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch30.html which include at the beginning the statement: "If a message contains more than max_rcpt (see below) addresses that are routed to the same host, more than one copy of the message has to be sent to that host." I expect that's what the OP is looking for in order to limit the number of recipients per message - this is *not* the number of entries in the "To:", "Cc:" or "Bcc:" headers when generated by the MUA, but the max number of "RCPT TO:" commands invoked when talking to the remote MTA. Graeme -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
