Recipient Limitation query: thanksss

[Benedict simon]

Thanks and really apprecite ur immediate reply julian
actually i was just tring to dig into sendmail.mc file for the
MaxRecipientsPerMessage entry and did not check my sendmail.cf file

anyway its there in sendmail.cf file and i did do the changes .

thanks again for the reply

regards simon

but jus wondering why the MaxRecipientsPerMessage or similar directive was
not there in sendmail.mc file



> A very quick Google resulted in this from the sendmail documentation:
>
> confMAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE    MaxRecipientsPerMessage    [infinite] If
> set, allow no more than the specified number of recipients in an SMTP
> envelope. Further recipients receive a 452 error code (i.e., they are
> deferred for the next delivery attempt).
>
> Is that close enough to what you need?
>
> On 23/07/2009 09:24, Benedict simon wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> just read the message
>> by the way i do wd like to implement something like this cause i do
>> sometimes do get one spam email being send to many of my email users
>>
>> MailSacnner infact marks it as spam which is fine
>> but if it could be done at the MTA level it would be much much better
>>
>> i have sendmail-8.13.8-2.el5 running on centos 5 but i was just checking
>> in my sendmail.mc file and could not find any Max recipentspermessage or
>> some similar option
>> Apprecite you advice nad help
>>
>>
>> regards
>>
>>
>> simon
>>
>>
>>
>>> Phil,
>>>          Thanks for the reply. I was aware that sendmail can do that, I
>>> was
>>> just hoping that MailScanner/Spamassassin could so I could get
>>> granular and define it by domain, etc.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help!
>>>
>>> David Gottschalk
>>> UTS Email team
>>> david.gottschalk at emory.edu
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Philip
>>> Butler
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:33 AM
>>> To: MailScanner discussion
>>> Subject: Re: Recipient Limitation(s)
>>>
>>> David,
>>>
>>> There's a way to do this in your sendmail configuration (assuming you
>>> are running sendmail):
>>>
>>>          O MaxRecipientsPerMessage=n   (where n is the max number of
>>> recipients)
>>>
>>> I am sure a good google search will explain more on this setting.
>>>
>>> If you are not running sendmail, this will be of no use to you.
>>>
>>> The advantage/disadvantage of this is that it runs before MailScanner
>>> is involved.  This is an advantage in that the message is quickly
>>> rejected (and the sender notified) before MailScanner has to process
>>> it.  It is a disadvantage in that it won't be seen by MailScanner and
>>> therefore not quarantined for analysis.
>>>
>>> My 2 cents worth...
>>>
>>> Phil Butler
>>>
>>> On Jul 22, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Gottschalk, David wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Is it possible to setup MailScanner to block/quarantine messages
>>>> over a certain number of recipients? I want to do this because we
>>>> have a lot of accounts being compromised and sending out emails to a
>>>> large number of recipients. I think this would be a good proactive
>>>> measure.
>>>>
>>>> I've looked into spamassassin doing this, but cannot find anything
>>>> that would give me the ability to do this.
>>>>
>>>> Any tips would be appreciated, I've searched all around and haven't
>>>> found anything.
>>>>
>>>> David Gottschalk
>>>> UTS Email team
>>>> david.gottschalk at emory.edu
>>>>
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