off topic: postfix and email to multiple recipients

[Stephen Swaney]

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> 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
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>  Regards,
>
> -Joshua
>
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