Re: [cobalt-users] Majordomo 552 errors

[Larry Smith <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 13 December 2003 12:34, Tim Walter wrote:
> In message <200312111853.19388.lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>, Larry Smith
> <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx> writes
>
> >Better bet is to research a method to break-down your list and send in
> >"pieces" (eg a smaller number of RCPT TO entries) per physical message,
> > _but_ an initial look at the majordomo site does not list anyway to do
> > this within majordomo.....
>
> Larry, or others,
>
> My knowledge of this area is small but slowly enlarging...
>
> Looking on google I eventually found an apparent solution of ...
>
> Quote
>
> This is a sendmail setup (on the machine running majordomo):
>
>          define(`SMTP_MAILER_MAXMSGS',`15')
>
> This tells sendmail to limit outgoing messages to 15 addresses per
> connection with target system - even though majordomo might give
> sendmail a
> message with 400 addresses.
>
> End Quote
>
> I am struggling to make this happen...
>
> A.
> Does this seem reasonable?
>
> B.
> Anyone know how to actually implement this
>
> When I amend cobalt.mc and then try and "m4" it as instructed here...
>
> http://www.sendmail.org/m4/intro.html
>
> nothing happens and the raq complains it can't find cf.m4 (though
> appears to be in the expected location)
>
> Anyone any experience of sendmail etc, I hear it is a nightmare...

Hmmm, interesting solution - and probably a good one.

Look at your existing sendmail.cf file (/etc/mail); make a copy first, then 
edit it and look for:

# maximum number of recipients per SMTP envelope
#O MaxRecipientsPerMessage=100

Delete the comment symbol (#) from the second line and change to however
many emails you want output per message:

EG O MaxRecipientsPerMessage=10

and this should "turn on" that feature.

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Larry Smith
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