On Fri, 29 Jan 1993 10:38:55 EST Nick Laflamme <NLAFLAMM@IRISHVMA> said: >Are you saying, Eric, that the ability to say that mail to a node should >be delivered in sets of five recipients at a time is no longer there in >1.7e, that I can't make LISTSERV behave the way it used to, even by >twisting LOCAL SYSVARS or Local= or Mail-via or some other method? This >loss of flexibility would be truly missed if that's the case. It has never been there in the example you mentioned. If the 'To:' field has the names of individual people, there will always be 1 to 5 recipients (always 1 in 1.7f). The reason for not going beyond 5 was that the header would get just too long. If it says 'To: Multiple recipients...' there has never been a limit of 5 recipients. Before, hmm, 1.7d I think, there was absolutely no limit. 1.7d introduced a MAXBSMTP parameter in LOCAL SYSVARS to prevent the generation of BSMTP jobs with 3000 recipients on large lists which would make the mailer or SMTP run out of storage. The default value is 500 and you could set it to 5 if you want, but note that this means you will get a lot more files on SMTP 191 for the same message. Regarding your message on XMAILER which I've just read: I have never understood why XMAILER aborts the entire delivery if a single recipient is misspelled. This means a typo in the list, possibly caused by a bug (that is, an error which isn't really an error but gets you an error message anyway) will make the list totally inoperative. Eric