How do I bounce back all mails over 50 recipients

[Lyndon Labuschagne]

On 11 Mar 2010, at 7:39 AM, ram wrote:

> I have a requirement that mails with  over 50 recipients should be
> outright rejected or bounced back
> I assumed this would have been pretty simple to configure in MailScanner
> or my MTA ( postfix) 
> 
its not an option I have used before but this might do it

smtpd_recipient_limit (default: 1000)
The maximal number of recipients that the Postfix SMTP server accepts per message delivery request.

you would use the below in your main.cf file
smtpd_recipient_limit = 50


> I do not want the mails to reach even the first 49 recipients if mail is
> marked to 50 
> 
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> Thanks
> Ram
> 
> 
> 
> 


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