Hello All, I have a question:
Does "max_num_recipients = 10" in the default configuration of the list, means that when I'm posting to the list I can additionaly write only 9 e-mails along with the list address and no more? If I'm writing more than 10 e-mail addresses along with the list address it goes to list admin approval? Is it for "To" "Cc" and "Bcc" alltogether?
Best Regards, Leon Kolchinsky
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 05:46:16PM +0300, lkolchin@univ.haifa.ac.il wrote:
Does "max_num_recipients = 10" in the default configuration of the list, means that when I'm posting to the list I can additionaly write only 9 e-mails along with the list address and no more? If I'm writing more than 10 e-mail addresses along with the list address it goes to list admin approval? Is it for "To" "Cc" and "Bcc" alltogether?
it mean your MTA support 10 rcpt per email
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On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 05:46:16PM +0300, lkolchin@univ.haifa.ac.il wrote:
Does "max_num_recipients = 10" in the default configuration of the list, means that when I'm posting to the list I can additionaly write only 9 e-mails along with the list address and no more? If I'm writing more than 10 e-mail addresses along with the list address it goes to list admin approval? Is it for "To" "Cc" and "Bcc" alltogether?
it mean your MTA support 10 rcpt per email
No. You're thinking of the Defaults.py/mm_cfg.py variable SMTP_MAX_RCPTS.
max_num_recipients functions as the OP suggests except as pointed out in another reply, Bcc recipients usually aren't seen by Mailman anyway so mailman only counts To: and Cc: recipients.
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On 8/31/05 7:46 AM, "lkolchin@univ.haifa.ac.il" <lkolchin@univ.haifa.ac.il> wrote:
Does "max_num_recipients = 10" in the default configuration of the list, means that when I'm posting to the list I can additionaly write only 9 e-mails along with the list address and no more? If I'm writing more than 10 e-mail addresses along with the list address it goes to list admin approval? Is it for "To" "Cc" and "Bcc" alltogether?
Generally, mailman won't learn of Bcc recipients (except itself). [Some mailers may still include the full Bcc header on Bcc copies of the message, as the RFCs still allow, but Mailman quite possibly doesn't bother looking, since that is rare.]
But yes, 10 recipients known to Mailman is the limit as set up by the default value. Personally, I prefer a setting of 1 (I hate broadcasting addresses into a mailing list).
--John
"John" == John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net> writes:
John> But yes, 10 recipients known to Mailman is the limit as set
John> up by the default value. Personally, I prefer a setting of
John> 1 (I hate broadcasting addresses into a mailing list).Does that actually work? Although 10 is too many (I don't think I've ever seen a non-spam/troll with more than 5 including the list on the lists I manage), most of the lists I manage have occasional valid reasons for cross-posting or adding non-member recipients. I would think the inconvenience would be greater with restriction to 1.
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On 8/31/05 7:00 PM, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
"John" == John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net> writes:
John> But yes, 10 recipients known to Mailman is the limit as set John> up by the default value. Personally, I prefer a setting of John> 1 (I hate broadcasting addresses into a mailing list).Does that actually work? Although 10 is too many (I don't think I've ever seen a non-spam/troll with more than 5 including the list on the lists I manage), most of the lists I manage have occasional valid reasons for cross-posting or adding non-member recipients. I would think the inconvenience would be greater with restriction to 1.
I probably should have said "I would prefer". As to cross-posting, for a list where that is natural, a setting of 1 would not work well.
As to non-member recipients, that's why I would prefer a setting of 1. I don't think--in most cases--the addresses of such people should be broadcast to lists. If their spam filtering doesn't let Bcc-addressed messages through, then a separate send seems in order.
[For the address I use for this and other work-related lists, it wouldn't matter...this morning Google shows 3600 hits on the address: it was ruined years ago, before the spammers destroyed email. The address does make a nice honeypot, though.]
--John
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