[Mimedefang] Streams and MaxRecipientsPerMessage

[WBrown at e1b.org]

mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote on 04/18/2005 02:53:08 
PM:

> That could be considered a violation of RFC 2821:

Figures!
 
>    recipients buffer
>       The minimum total number of recipients that must be buffered is
>       100 recipients.  Rejection of messages (for excessive recipients)
>       with fewer than 100 RCPT commands is a violation of this
>       specification.
> 
> Now, it's not clear to me that "rejecting a RCPT command with a 4xx 
code"
> is a violation, because it says "Rejection of messages... is a 
violation",
> but you're definitely skating on thin ice if you set 
MaxRecipientsPerMessage
> to less than 100.

OK, since we're adjusting how we all look at mail as we deal with spam 
filtering, maybe this is one thing that should be tweaked.  Allowing each 
recipient to set their own rules (which is why we have stream by 
recipient) should be integral in the new world of SMTP.  By requiring us 
to accept up to 100 recipients per email limits this.