off topic: postfix and email to multiple recipients

[Pete Russell]

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Hi Steve, dod yuou ever resolve this issue with postfix? I am really 
keen to fix this.

I ran the smtpd_recipient_limit = 1 for a few weeks but a number of 
hosts start failing to send untill you increase the limit :(

Any other ideas for fixing this in postfix?

Heres hoping
Pete


Stephen Swaney wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>>Behalf Of Joshua Hirsh
>>Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:04 PM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: off topic: postfix and email to multiple recipients
>>
>>
>>>And as I read this means the
>>>default_destination_recipient_limit controls
>>>only outgoing (destination_recipient) parameters. I nees
>>>something that
>>>works on the incoming messages :(
>>
>> You mean like smtpd_recipient_limit? Changing that setting would do it,
>>however, it would probably have a negative impact on the server as it
>>would now have to accept one message per recipient. For small sites I
>>wouldn't see this as a problem, but for large sites, it would be a pretty
>>excessive waste of I/O.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> I think this setting just rejects any email thats over the limit, hence the
> high default setting of 1000 but I'll try testing.
> 
> You are right about load. Using this configuration with sendmail can add 30%
> to the server load. But if you want to be sure that individual user's spam
> preferences are strictly enforced, It the only way I know of doing it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve
> 
> Steve Swaney
> President
> Fortress Systems Ltd.
> Phone: 202 338-1670
> Cell: 202 352-3262
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> steve.swaney at fsl.com
> 
> 
> 
>> Regards,
>>
>>-Joshua
>>
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