Re: [Evolution] mass email from evolution

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 19:30 +0200, Juergen Schmidt wrote:
> > > > we have customers using evolution. they send mass-emails from evolution
> > > > to their organisation-members. around 400 emails each sending ...
> > > >
> > > > on our mailserver we use smtp-restriction to 100 recipients. is there a
> > > > way to teach evolution to split this amount of email-adresses and send 4
> > > > emails each with 100 recipients?
> > >
> > > That sounds like a perfect task for a script.
> > >
> > > Write the email in a text editor, then click on a button linked
> > > to the script.  It mails the mail text file to all the people
> > > listed in the members file, or LDAP, or where ever they are stored.
> >
> >
> > If its legit for the users to send a mail to 400 recipients, why
> > wouldn't the mailserver just allow that.
> because of anti-spam actions and load of the server. if we openup this 
> settings ex. to 500 and a user sends an email to 500 recipients with an 
> attachment lets say 10MB ... the load on server side is incredibly high 
> ... close to all big hosts (which are interested on quality of there 
> services and not just in quantity) do restriction on this level ...
>
> i think in future there should be a solution in the mailclients for this 
> cases ...

A workaround in a mail client for a hack in a server setting?

Hmm, nope.  This is purely an MTA issue.

> .:js
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> > -JP
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