hmm.... maybe james should be able to have a configurable per domain limit so we can deal with dodgy servers. Maybe also it should try to detect "too many recipients" when sending the message and break it down there too.
Applying it to all servers, including well behaved ones would cost me a lot in terms of bandwidth. For example, i have an academic mailing list with about 500 members, of which 95% are accounted for by two different domains. It often gets 1 or 2 MB emails. 1mb email ends up using 20 to 30 mb of bandwidth instead of 500mb! Daniel. > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter T. Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 June 2005 18:02 > To: James Users List > Subject: Re: Connection timed out and Too many recipients > > > Right, but practically speaking if James cannot support sending to major > email vendors it can't really be considered a useable mailing > list manager, > as far as I am concerned. I mean, I simply cannot use James if a > significant > portion of my users will be left in the cold... > > A common approach I've seen is for the list manager to detect when a > recipient list is getting to long, and break it up into smaller > chunks that > can be sent separately. > > Cheers > > -- > Peter T. Brown > Founding Partner > Headless Hunter, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Rewarding you for who you know." > http://www.headlesshunter.com/ > > > > > > > > From: "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: James Users List <[email protected]> > > Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:01:30 -0400 > > To: James Users List <[email protected]>, Andrew Hayden > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: RE: Connection timed out and Too many recipients > > > > Andrew Hayden wrote: > > > >> this is an issue with hotmail, yahoo, etc's spam-prevention > >> techniques. They tend to set very low limits on the number of > >> recipients that a message can be sent to at once > > > > Which is, by the way, an RFC violation. I appreciate why they > do it, but > > their limits are well below those mandated by RFC 2821: > > > > The minimum total number of recipients that must be buffered is > > 100 recipients. Rejection of messages (for excessive recipients) > > with fewer than 100 RCPT commands is a violation of this > > specification. > > > > --- Noel > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
