[Mailman-Users] Too many recipients

[Kalbfleisch, Gary]

Am I understanding correctly that the list itself is a member of the list?  Sounds like an email loop to me.   What are you trying to do?


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mailman-Users [mailto:mailman-users-
> bounces+garyk=shoreline.edu at python.org] On Behalf Of Rodrigo Abrantes
> Antunes
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 9:19 AM
> To: mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Too many recipients
> 
> Citando Rodrigo Abrantes Antunes <rodrigoantunes at pelotas.ifsul.edu.br>:
> >
> > Hi, when I try to send an e-mail to my list (only one recipient, the
> > list itself), I get these:
> >
> >    In mailman's smtp logs:
> >    Oct 22 13:26:17 2012 (22940) <xxxxxxx> smtp to contas for 828
> > recips, completed in 1.705 seconds
> >
> >    In mailman's post logs:
> >    Oct 22 13:26:17 2012 (22940) post to contas from xxx at xxxx,
> > size=3620, message-id=<xxxxxxx>, 450 failures
> >
> >    In mailman's smtp-failure logs:
> >    Oct 22 13:26:17 2012 (22940) delivery to xxx at xxxxx failed with code
> > 452: 4.5.3 Error: too many recipients
> >
> >    In my mm_cfg.py I have this:
> >    DEFAULT_MAX_NUM_RECIPIENTS = 0
> >
> >    Any ideas?
> >
> Searching google I found that this error isn't related to the number of users in
> the list, it occurs because the total number of addresses in the
> To: and Cc: headers of the post equals or exceeds max_num_recipients. But
> in documentation is said that if this option is set to 0 it has no limit.
> And my post have only one recipient in To:, the list itself. So what may be
> causing this?
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