[Mimedefang] Spam with more than one recipient - reject or not?

Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com
Wed Sep 7 11:26:14 EDT 2005


David F. Skoll wrote:
> No, you misunderstand.  You tempfail all but the first recipient;
> this lets you filter the mail knowing only one recipient will get it.
> 
> On the next transmission, do the same thing.  Eventually, all the
> recipients will take turns being "first" and the mail will be
> completely processed. 
> 
> There are, of course, serious practical problems with this.  In fact,
> it's not feasible for real-world situations.

Effectively this is the same as setting sendmail's MaxRecipientsPerMessage to 1, which is a little low.

http://www.sendmail.org/m4/tweaking_config.html#confMAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE

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