Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

[Steven W. Orr]

On Saturday, Apr 12th 2008 at 22:53 -0000, quoth Paul Lussier:

=>Coleman Kane <cokane at cokane.org> writes:
=>
=>> A more helpful suggestion is that you may want to set the
=>> default_destination_recipient_limit in /etc/postfix/main.cf (or wherever
=>> main.cf is located on your particular install) to 5. Adding (or
=>> changing) the following line in the file should do:
=>>
=>> default_destination_recipient_limit = 5
=>
=>Thanks!  And just to clarify, does this limit the total number of
=>recipients to 5, or does it just batch 5 recipients at a time when
=>sending to the total list of recipients?  In other words, if I sent to
=>20 people, does it get send in 4 batches of 5, or do 15 people not
=>recieve the mail?
=>
=>I'm assuming the former, i.e. 4 batches of 5.

It's a good question. Therew is a difference between sending a sinlge 
message to list of people and and sending a message to a list. 

In the former case, I could send something really important to everyone I 
know with lots of people in the to line. In the latter case, I would send 
a message to the address of a list that is being run by a mailinglist 
manager. The manager would then explode the message to all the people that 
are subscribed to the list. This latter case is what is specified by the m 
option of the sendmail mailer. The former case would be handled (I 
believe) by the r option of the mailer.

And the point about postfix setting default_destination_recipient_limit is 
not equivalent because the goal is to cause proper mail delivery in groups 
of 5 only for yahoo and not for all outgoing traffic.

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