On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, David Latter wrote:
> I would like to thank all the people who help me with our SPAM problem.
>
> Now I have another question. One suggestion was to set the following
>
> recipients_max = 25
> recipients_max_reject = true
>
> Which I did but I have a user that has a mailing list of about 90 people he
> sends info to and now that gets bounced. What I would like to do is have the
> above restriction but say he is except from it?
> I thought the command recipients_reject_except was the right command but it
> doesn't work?
No, recipients_reject_except is for listing those incoming recipients
who are exempt from "policy" rejections. (e.g. you list "postmaster"
there so that mail to postmaster from blocked hosts/nets gets through.)
There is no direct way you can set up exceptions for recipients_max.
When you say "you have a user", do you mean he is a login user on the
machine that runs Exim? If he is, you could set up the mailing list on
the machine in a file which he can update, but which Exim uses as a
mailing list (see chapter 37) via some special local part. Since the
recipients_max restriction applies only to the original recipients of a
message, it would not bite.
If the user does not have an account on your machine, you either have to
persuade him to send no more than 25 recipients per message (if he's
running Exim he can set max_rcpt on the smtp transport) or set up some
scheme whereby the mailing list lives on your machine (i.e. a variant on
the above).
Or just up recipients_max to 100 :-)
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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