Here's my original question:
Subject: sendmail limitations
We're using Pine 3.91 on our Alpha 3600 (Digital Unix 3.2C). One user
has an addressbook with a list containing over 130 names. Each time she
attempts to send mail to these people, it bombs after 100 names. I've
been in touch with the Pine team and they assure me that Pine has no
limitations on the number of addresses and that some versions of sendmail
have limits like this. Has anyone seen this and/or found a workaround?
Thanks.
Thanks to everyone who responded. These folks were:
Jay Wasserman <jrw_at_vlsi.bu.edu>
"Randall S. Winchester" <rsw_at_eng.umd.edu>
"Reinhard Doelz, Biocomputing Basel" <doelz_at_comp.bioz.unibas.ch>
Patrick O'Brien <pobrien_at_draco.harvard.edu>
I received a handful of responses suggesting that I split the list into
several parts. Patrick O'Brien provided a likely explanation for this
behavior:
RFC 821 limits line length to 990 characters, after which point
it breaks the lines up and delimits them with a "!". In the
case where the "To:" field is greater than 990 characters,
the result is to break up matched pairs of "<" ">" or other
reserved characters. For your mailer definition line in your
sendmail.cf, you can turn of the RFC 821 compliance by changing
the F=L flag. If you have Brian Costales's book on Sendmail,
see Page 404.
What I'll likely do to work around this is to be the first to use our new
'listproc' software and make a one-way mailing list. I need to learn
this stuff so this provided an ideal opportunity. Thanks again.
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Don Newcomer Dickinson College
newcomer_at_dickinson.edu P.O. Box 1773
Carlisle, PA 17013
"If God is your co-pilot, switch seats!"
Received on Wed Oct 11 1995 - 22:21:22 NZDT