Hi Marius, Thanks for the info. Does it actually mean that if the bulk message is say 500 to various yahoo, then it would send 9 messages/connection and max connection being 5 - so in effect 45 messages? After that another Message_ID will be generated for the delivery?
Sujit -----Original Message----- From: Marius Stan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 16 February 2015 13:20 To: Sujit Acharyya-choudhury; [email protected] Subject: Re: [exim] How to limit too many recipients from mailing list On 16.02.2015 15:12, Sujit Acharyya-choudhury wrote: I have something like this: domainlist throttled_domains = yahoo.com : yahoo.co.uk : yahoo.ca : yahoo.es yahoo.it : yahoo.ro # This router limits the messages per outbound SMTP conenction: # Place it BEFORE other regular dnslookup routers throttled_out: driver = dnslookup domains = +throttled_domains transport = dkim_smtp_throttled ignore_target_hosts = 0.0.0.0 : 127.0.0.0/8 no_more # Place something like this in transports: dkim_smtp_throttled: driver = smtp max_rcpt =9 connection_max_messages = 5 [ rest of options] > > > We want to ensure that when sending a message to a mailing list, we > don't send messages to too many recipients as Yahoo, AOL usually will > block our gateway as a result. The best way is to split the message so > that the number of recipient are within a limit of say 100 max. What is > the best way of achieving this. Usually, people send it to a list and > there is no way of knowing how many recipients there are in a particular > list, as some list will contain 1000 users and some may be 50. > > > > We have set max_rcpt=30, but I have a feeling that, the message_id > remains the same for all the deliveries and as such Yahoo/AOL will go by > message_id and max_rcpt will have no effect. > > > > > > Regards > > > > Sujit Choudhury | IT Services > > Birkbeck, University of London > > > > > > > > > -- ## List details at https://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/
