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I appreciate your response. I'll try the FULL822 option while
researching options with Microsoft. They've sent me a patch in the
past, but the error has always returned - even in 2003's SMTP server.
The error is documented here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321150
-Peter
Nathan Brindle wrote:
> At 12:58 AM 3/20/2005 -0600, you wrote:
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>> This is because Listserv sends its posts as a single message with
>> multiple recipients. Is there any way to have the engine instead
>> send the single message 150 times to each of my list members? Seems
>> like the manual is silent on this configuration change.
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> Not really silent, just not fond of the idea. You can set everyone on
> the list to the deprecated (but still documented) FULL822 personal
> option and a separate SMTP envelope is generated for each address.
> This is deprecated, however, because it significantly slows things
> down, particularly if the outbound SMTP server is optimised for BSMTP.
>
> The problem is really not with LISTSERV, though. The IIS SMTP engine
> shouldn't be trying to throw errors back in the middle of a BSMTP
> transaction. From LISTSERV's perspective, a well-behaved SMTP server
> should accept the BSMTP transaction as a unit and send delivery errors
> back only after the entire transaction is finished. LISTSERV is not a
> full-featured SMTP server; its function is to hand off mail in bulk to
> a full-featured SMTP server for delivery, and it is not designed to
> handle errors generated "on the fly" in the middle of a BSMTP
> transaction.
>
> Some SMTP servers can be configured not to do this sort of thing (for
> instance, sendmail often is configured by default to do
> canonicalization of addresses on the fly, which doesn't play well with
> LISTSERV, but you can turn that off by adding FEATURE(`nocanonify') in
> sendmail.mc). However, I don't know if the IIS server can be
> reconfigured not to throw delivery errors during an SMTP conversation
> or not.
>
> I'm sure you'll find quite a bit of art on this subject in the
> archives of this list, though.
>
> Nathan
>
> .
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