Hi Marius,
Thanks for the info.
Does it actually mean that if the bulk message is say 500 to various
yahoo, then it would send 9 messages/connection and max connection being
5 - so in effect 45 messages? After that another Message_ID will be
generated for the delivery?
Sujit
-----Original Message-----
From: Marius Stan [
mailto:mstan@asesoft.ro]
Sent: 16 February 2015 13:20
To: Sujit Acharyya-choudhury; exim-users@???
Subject: Re: [exim] How to limit too many recipients from mailing list
On 16.02.2015 15:12, Sujit Acharyya-choudhury wrote:
I have something like this:
domainlist throttled_domains = yahoo.com : yahoo.co.uk : yahoo.ca :
yahoo.es yahoo.it : yahoo.ro
# This router limits the messages per outbound SMTP conenction:
# Place it BEFORE other regular dnslookup routers
throttled_out:
driver = dnslookup
domains = +throttled_domains
transport = dkim_smtp_throttled
ignore_target_hosts = 0.0.0.0 : 127.0.0.0/8
no_more
# Place something like this in transports:
dkim_smtp_throttled:
driver = smtp
max_rcpt =9
connection_max_messages = 5
[ rest of options]
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> We want to ensure that when sending a message to a mailing list, we
> don't send messages to too many recipients as Yahoo, AOL usually will
> block our gateway as a result. The best way is to split the message
so
> that the number of recipient are within a limit of say 100 max. What
is
> the best way of achieving this. Usually, people send it to a list and
> there is no way of knowing how many recipients there are in a
particular
> list, as some list will contain 1000 users and some may be 50.
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> We have set max_rcpt=30, but I have a feeling that, the message_id
> remains the same for all the deliveries and as such Yahoo/AOL will go
by
> message_id and max_rcpt will have no effect.
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> Regards
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> Sujit Choudhury | IT Services
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> Birkbeck, University of London
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