On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 06:20:41PM +0300, Stephen M Ciirah allegedly wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A client sends a 400kb attachment (legitimate mail) and CC's about 2000
> recipients. As far as he is concerned he only sent on 400k mail to our
> server. Our server splits those CC's into 2000 separate messages, amounting
> to about 800mb of mail traffic.
>
> Q1. What is the general mail policy regarding how users should use their
> ISPs mail server to relay their messages?
Generally a lot of ISPs forget to put T&Cs for this until they get hit
with someone consuming all of their mail resources.
> Q2. Do ISPs condone such behavior from users?
Some do some don't. Some see it as an opportunity to provide a service
to people, others sell listmanager services, others simply incorporate
a charging mechanism into their email system.
A techniacl solution is to set up a separate instance of qmail and
direct your large-cc users to that mail server.
If people genuinely want to send to a large set of recipients and
assuming it's not spam of course, you might want to consider words
like "service" and "revenue" rather than "condone" and "limit".
Regards.
