[Mailman-Users] hotmail bouncing

[David]

On 13 Feb 2003, Jon Carnes wrote:

> Some folks on the list have hypothesized that this is due to some spam
> rules setup on hotmail servers (but not consistent across all their
> servers).
>
> Try modifying SMTP_MAX_RCPTS (in the file mm_cfg.py):
>   # Ceiling on the number of recipients that can be specified
>   # in a single SMTP transaction.  Set to 0 to submit the
>   # entire recipient list in one transaction.  Only used with
>   # the SMTPDirect DELIVERY_MODULE.
>   # SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 500
>   SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 5
>
> If that works, please let us know.

SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 5 seems to have resolved the problem. The most recent
post didn't bounce.

OTOH, I've been having a few Hotmail people complaining that their emails
to me (not list related) have bounced. I even wondered if Hotmail had
blacklisted my domain in relation to this problem, but it's not uniform.
Most mail gets through, although some bounce - 550. Hotmail is very
frustrating.  If only no-one used it :(

I never have problems with proper mail addresses, either with Mailman or
normal mail.

>
>
> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 08:12, Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
> > Hi All--
> >
> > David wrote:
> > >
> > > I've been running an announce only list for a couple of months. Hotmail
> > > has bounced everything from the last two posts. It's pretty vanilla
> > > stuff... some text and some url's. Nothing I can imagine them bouncing
> > > for, unless there is something they don't like in Mailman headers.
> > >
> > > If anyone has any clues I'd be most grateful. A lot of our customers
> > > unfortunately use these abominable hotmail things.
> > >
> >
> > I have no answers, but I'd like them too;-)  I don't seem to get as many
> > as David gets, but every now and then hotmail will puke on half (half!)
> > my subscribers.  I think the last time was about two months ago.
> >
> > Metta,
> > Ivan
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > Ivan Van Laningham
> > God N Locomotive Works
> > http://www.pauahtun.org/
> > http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html
> > Army Signal Corps:  Cu Chi, Class of '70
> > Author:  Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Mailman-Users mailing list
> > Mailman-Users at python.org
> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
> > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
> > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
> >
> > This message was sent to: jonc at nc.rr.com
> > Unsubscribe or change your options at
> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jonc%40nc.rr.com
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Mailman-Users mailing list
> Mailman-Users at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
> Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
> Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
>
> This message was sent to: david at kenpro.com.au
> Unsubscribe or change your options at
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/david%40kenpro.com.au
>