Patch query - single email per bug

Kevin Benton kevin.benton at amd.com
Wed Dec 1 21:54:08 UTC 2004


Good idea - adding a maximum_recipients_per_email parameter should take
care of that, right?  :)

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 14:42, David Miller wrote:
> Kevin Benton wrote:
> 
> > When the MD5's match, the email recipient would just get added to the
> > existing recipient list.  If the outgoing text were unique, a new entry
> > in the hash would be created with the MD5 as the key.
> 
> This kind of thing might work.  Another issue to be aware of is that a 
> lot of mail servers have a limit to the allowed number of recipients on 
> a single message (as an anti-spam measure).  I know Sendmail (which most 
> of the net seems to be using still) defaults to a limit of 50 recipients 
> per message.  Many ISPs limit it much smaller (like 15).





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