[Mailman-Users] A particular mailing list cant send out emails ifhave 2000 or more members??

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Mon Sep 20 16:44:53 CEST 2010


Ricky Lim wrote:
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>Just wondering if anyone have met with such situation whereby a mailing list have 2000 or more members and it cant send out emails?? 
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>I have tried to increase postfix sending recipient (smtpd_recipient_limit and smtpd_recipient_overshoot_limit to 5000 each) , but still cant send out emails.
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>smtpd_recipient_limit = 5000
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>smtpd_recipient_overshoot_limit = 5000
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>Currently I am running mailman version 2.1.9-4.el5 , postfix version 2.3.3-2.1.el5_2 , python version 2.4.3-27.el5.


What's in Mailman's 'smtp' and 'smtp-failure' logs? What's in the
Postfix log?

Try setting SMTP_MAX_RCPTS to some smallish number, e.g.

SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 20

in mm_cfg.py

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