Re: [Evolution] mass email from evolution

[Ron Johnson <ronnyjunior comcast net>]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:26:03 +0800
Not Zed <notzed ximian com> wrote:

> 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.

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