mailscanner only sees the envelope TO

[Evert Ford]

To me this sounds more like the job of the MTA(Sendmail or Exim, for
example) or the MDA(procmail), since only one is received, but 100 are
delivered.  I don't know much about other MTA's, but Sendmail can do
filtering through changes to sendmail.cf and its access file(aptly named
access), and procmail through .procmailrc.

Evert Ford
Information Analyst
Westone Laboratories
http://www.westone.com

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
Behalf Of Ken Anderson
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:30 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: mailscanner only sees the envelope TO


MailScanner only looks at the envelope TO address, so if your mail
server allows messages to have 100 recipients, you have 99 users who
can't control what they perceive to be their own email filtering. :-(

What is the best way to handle this issue?

So far, we've limited the MaxRecipients in sendmail.cf to 10.
Users don't send mail out through our MailScanner boxes, so this works
reasonably well, since less than 1% of incoming mail is actually
addressed to more than 1 user.

Thanks for any ideas,
Ken A.
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