On Friday 14 June 2002 04:12 pm, Christopher Miles wrote: > > The group in question has around 500 members, which seems like kind of a > lot to me. I�ve noticed a lot of errors in the log file like this one: > > ---- snippety-snip > > Jun 14 14:50:41 alice courieresmtpd: > error,relay=::ffff:127.0.0.1,from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,to=<m >a [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 431 Too many recipients. > > ---- snip-snippety
It may be that the person attempting to post is putting a bunch of CC: recipients onto a post to the list. There is a configurable (per list) parameter in Mailman to reject messages that have too many recipients in the TO: and CC: lines (combined). This prevents massive cross-posting. I'm not familiar with Courier SMTPD, but it is possible that the Mailman wrapper is actually generating this message, not Courier itself. It could also be that Courier is choking on the number of "RCPT TO:" lines in the envelope headers from the list. You may need to adjust Courier's parameters. [...] > The second problem I have it with using the same instance of Mailman for > several domains. I was thinking that this would be easy, but I�m having > problems with the GID used to execute the mail scripts. When I compile, it > seems like no matter how many GID�s I list in the �--with-mail-gid� switch, > it only uses the first one. So if mail comes in for another domain, it > can�t exec the script. This is "working as designed" per the installation documentation. The ability to list multiple GIDs on the ./configure command is so that installations can be automated on multi-host environments. It looks for each specified GID in turn and uses the first one that actually exists on the system. > > Is there any way to get around this? > There are several approaches. Tell us how your virtual domains are mapped to your login names (generically, not a specific list of logins). Is it one- to-one or many-to-one? Scott -- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------ Scott Courtney | "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them [EMAIL PROTECTED] | having a bad operating system." -- Linus Torvalds http://4th.com/ | ("The Rebel Code," NY Times, 21 February 1999) ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
