On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 06:00:18PM +0530, Joy wrote:
> 2. I am willing to limit recipient per message
You're failing to understand the difference between the recipient
count of a message and the recipient count of an "envelope". The
same message can be delivered in multiple "envelopes". If you
lower the recipient limit, all that happens is that more "envelopes"
are sent, wasting bandwidth.
The only place in the mail flow where the recipient limits controls
the number of recipients is at the submission port between the MUA
and MTA. MUAs don't split messages into multiple envelopes like
MTAs do. So you want to impose a recipient limit, and your users
are submitting mail via SMTP, the place to set the limit is on port
587.
You're probably still not thinking about the problem clearly. I
certainly would never use a mail service that limits each of my
messages to 5 recipients.
It is also possible that you're still communicating the problem
clearly. What real problem are you trying to solve? Why limit
the recipients. You're just talking about how, which masks likely
confusion which is leading you to seek help with something unrelated
to your actual goals.
--
Viktor.
