Subject: Re: Lists in Pine (was Aliases in Pine)

From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 10:00:17 -0800 (PST)

On Wed, 22 Nov 1995 [email-masked] wrote:

> is there a maximum number of recipients that I can add to a list?
>
> I created a list with about 100 recipients and some didn't receive the
> mails. (pine-3.91 on SunOS 4.1.2)

There is no limit in pine, but the interaction between pine and sendmail
sometimes causes problems by overflowing fixed sized buffers in sendmail.
If you can try setting smtp-server in the Setup/Config screen, that should
get around the problem.  That uses a different method to figure out who
the recipients are, so doesn't run into the same buffer overflow.  You
can try

smtp-server=localhost

as a first attempt.  If that doesn't work, try setting it to the actual
hostname of the host you are on.  If that doesn't work, try setting it to
the hostname of some other smtp server you have access to.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

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From: [email-masked] (Barry Bouwsma)
Date: 24 Nov 1995 02:03:33 GMT

>the hostname of some other smtp server you have access to.

    A good name to try for this is

smtp-server=mailhost

This will work if your organization or school has a central mail server
which is intended to handle most mail, and it's been given the nickname
of mailhost -- a generic, easy-to-remember name and a nice practice to
follow.
If this doesn't work, you'll have to use a specific name of an smtp server.

    Note too that one can specify a number of servers; in the event one of
them is down, unreachable, overloaded, or otherwise not functional, Pine
will try the next, and the next, and the next, until finally one responds.

smtp-server=mailhost, backup.host.our.edu, spam.i.am.com, localhost

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