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From: richard lucassen on 3 Jan 2010 14:37 Hello list, I want to send once a week a simple mail to a list of 3000 recipients. I can set smtpd_recipient_limit and smtpd_recipient_overshoot_limit to higher limits, but is there a better way to handle this? R. -- ___________________________________________________________________ It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak aloud and remove all doubt. +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Richard Lucassen, Utrecht | | Public key and email address: | | http://www.lucassen.org/mail-pubkey.html | +------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: Patrick Ben Koetter on 3 Jan 2010 14:50 * richard lucassen <postfix-users(a)cloud9.net>: > I want to send once a week a simple mail to a list of 3000 recipients. I > can set smtpd_recipient_limit and smtpd_recipient_overshoot_limit to > higher limits, but is there a better way to handle this? Chosse a client/write a script that breaks the list of 3.000 recipients down to batches of 50 recipients. IIRC that's the maximum (RFC) number of recipients any SMTP server must accept. p(a)rick -- All technical questions asked privately will be automatically answered on the list and archived for public access unless privacy is explicitely required and justified. saslfinger (debugging SMTP AUTH): <http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/saslfinger/>
From: Mark Goodge on 3 Jan 2010 14:57 richard lucassen wrote: > Hello list, > > I want to send once a week a simple mail to a list of 3000 recipients. I > can set smtpd_recipient_limit and smtpd_recipient_overshoot_limit to > higher limits, but is there a better way to handle this? Yes. Install a proper mailing list management system, such as Mailman or majordomo. 3000 recipients is waaaaaaay too many to do in a single shot using Bcc. Mark
From: richard lucassen on 3 Jan 2010 15:01 On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 20:50:21 +0100 Patrick Ben Koetter <p(a)state-of-mind.de> wrote: > * richard lucassen <postfix-users(a)cloud9.net>: > > I want to send once a week a simple mail to a list of 3000 > > recipients. I can set smtpd_recipient_limit and > > smtpd_recipient_overshoot_limit to higher limits, but is there a > > better way to handle this? > > Chosse a client/write a script that breaks the list of 3.000 > recipients down to batches of 50 recipients. IIRC that's the maximum > (RFC) number of recipients any SMTP server must accept. That was the first solution that I thought of, but before reinventing the wheel, I was wondering if someone else had already invented this wheel :) Btw: the defaultsettings of smtpd_recipient_limit and smtpd_recipient_overshoot_limit are as high as 1000. R. -- ___________________________________________________________________ It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak aloud and remove all doubt. +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Richard Lucassen, Utrecht | | Public key and email address: | | http://www.lucassen.org/mail-pubkey.html | +------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: richard lucassen on 3 Jan 2010 15:14
On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:57:41 +0000 Mark Goodge <mark(a)good-stuff.co.uk> wrote: > > I want to send once a week a simple mail to a list of 3000 > > recipients. I can set smtpd_recipient_limit and > > smtpd_recipient_overshoot_limit to higher limits, but is there a > > better way to handle this? > > Yes. Install a proper mailing list management system, such as Mailman > or majordomo. 3000 recipients is waaaaaaay too many to do in a single > shot using Bcc. Ok, but a mlm is quite some overkill IMHO, just wondering if there was an intermediate solution. This is for a blind person who handles the "mailinglist" himself, so solutions are rather limited. But anyway, I can always write a small shell script that does the job. Should not be a very big problem. R. -- ___________________________________________________________________ It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak aloud and remove all doubt. +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Richard Lucassen, Utrecht | | Public key and email address: | | http://www.lucassen.org/mail-pubkey.html | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ |