15 should be a safe number for AOL, but I do not think they allow more
than 20 recipients per message.
Dan Liston
"Roger B.A. Klorese" wrote:
>
> At 12:42 PM 12/11/2001 +0200, Ezra Bick wrote:
> >Can you explain what are the considerations for producing this kind of
> >queuing. Why aol one recipient per envelope and hotmail 100? How does
> >this help in sending out the list?
>
> The AOL configuration is an aberration I set up *very* temporarily, to deal
> with the fact that AOL is now using the same MTA on some of its boundary
> machines that netscape.net uses, on which SMTP pipelining is
> broken. However, I now know that the correct way to handle that in
> sendmail 8.12.x is to explicitly disable pipelining for the domain by
> putting a record to do so in the access database:
>
> Srv_Features:aol.com P
>
> Since AOL has heuristics to tell if you're a bad citizen based on the
> number of connections over some period of time and/or number of addresses
> on an envelope, I'd suggest using a number smaller than the 100 I use with
> the others.
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