Parameter for maximum recipients in To:/Bcc: field?

"Markus R. Keßler" <expires_31.03.2004@/*-This-space-for-rent-*/dipl-ing-kessler.de> writes:

> ...
>
> Now I made a perl script for serving a mailing list, but at least
> referring to Sendmail I know that you can set a parameter that tells
> sendmail how many recipients in the To: or in the Bcc: field are
> allowed.
>
> ...
>
> So my questions are:
>
> - Does someone know of this magic number of max. recipients and
> - if this exists, how can I (or my hoster) increase or set it to an
> alternate value?

No, there's no limit to the number of recipients.

--
Dave Sill Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
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Hi,

I'm running my webpages using apache on a redhat linux server c/o my web
hoster.
There are several other accounts on the same machine but I have access
to perl and qmail.

Now I made a perl script for serving a mailing list, but at least
referring to Sendmail I know that you can set a parameter that tells
sendmail how many recipients in the To: or in the Bcc: field are
allowed.

My script is invoked and executed once and all necessary fields like the
subject line and text body are written to qmail once in this pass and
all recipents are passed to qmail once in the Bcc: field, except my own
email address which is written into the To: field.

According to what I've read about sendmail I'm afraid that qmail behaves
similarly and if exceeding a magic number of recipients qmail also will
refuse to send.

In the qmail faqs I didn't find what I needed.

So my questions are:

- Does someone know of this magic number of max. recipients and
- if this exists, how can I (or my hoster) increase or set it to an
alternate value?

Many thanks in advance,

Markus