It must be an Imail problem as I noticed some of the messages I have posted
in the last few days have not shown up here...
Sheldon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ram Pandiri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 4:45 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Some users in the list do not get the message
> Hello,
>
> I appreciate if someone can help me with this problem ...
>
> I have a mailing list of about 3600 members (recipients per message: 160).
> Some users have not been receiving the postings to this list. I then
> looked at the logs for the latest message and it looked like almost 800
> members did not get the mail. I am assuming that the email of each
> recipient will show up in the log in the "dialog" smtp has with the remote
> mail hosts. I could not find the email address of the user that
originally
> complained not receiving the postings in the log.
>
> Vast majority of the missing postings seems to be to the hotmail users -
> more than half of the hotmail users are not getting the mail.
>
> IMail/SMTP seems to sort the 160 recipients and if there are multiple
> recipients at the same domain it is using some kind of "multiple" send,
with
> a max value of 5. So if there are 20 hotmail users, it is sending four
> mails with 5 users per "SEND" to the hotmail domain. Could this be the
> source of the problem ? Could hotmail be rejecting this kind of send as
> anti-spam ? I am not a SMTP expert - this could be a standard feature,
the
> reason I am suspecting is I see the missing mails in this multiple sends.
>
> If you would like to know any settings, imail logs, please let me know.
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Ra
>
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