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- From: jch@rdg.dec.com (John Haxby)
- Subject: Re: workaround for 4K buffer on most sendmails
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.083330.15236@rdg.dec.com>
- Keywords: sendmail header size
- Sender: news@rdg.dec.com (Mr News)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Aug19.160024.5887@dg-rtp.dg.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 08:33:30 GMT
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- Hmmm, I think I may be responsible for this problem :-)
-
- The `correct' solution is to fix all the sendmail's out there to
- remove the limitation on number of recipients. This, however,
- is a pipe dream.
-
- A slightly different solution (proposed by Paul Vixie and used
- at the Palo Alto gateway) is simply to truncate the number of
- recipients: this has the undesirable feature that some of the recipients
- are lost but the highly desirable feature that systems which
- receive mail via Palo Alto don't get broken and Paul gets to
- keep his knee-caps.
-
- Yet a third solution, which can be implemented by a shell
- script that is run immediately before the mail queue is processed
- (which means that all mail must be queued), is to move over-long
- recipient lists on a gateway machine into the body of the message:
- this way, a determined user can still reply to all the recipients and
- no sendmails get broken.
-
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- John Haxby, Definitively Wrong.
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