forward slashes and mail (unrelated)

[JayBee]

Two quickies:

1. What do I have to do/change in httpd.conf to allow me to input URLs without having to include the trailing forward slash?

2. Mail seems to have a problem BCCing to multiple recipients. I've got a PHP script that pulls email addresses out of a database and presents them in a comma-separated list. Copy and Paste that into the BCC field of an email, send it, and it hangs. Seems to be trying to verify every mail address (though I'm not sure how). Any thoughts?

JayBee
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[jkuehn1010]

I don't really have a solution for your first question. But I do have a similar situation for your second question going on at the company I work for. We are owned by AOL/TimeWarner...and they've switched us all to this GOD AWEFUL enterprise email program through Netscape. Now we've (the mac IT guys) have noticed that if someone has a forward slash, or < > or * or any UNIX style commands in their subject or email address they will get a SYNTAX error and won't go anywhere. You take these out...and it will fly through. Why? Cause they are using a UNIX based email server and if it tries to read the subject like: //fwd.stupidemail or email address like: <bla@bla.com> it won't accept it cause of the symbols.

So pending on the persons SMTP server it may not accept emails that are encased by < > or with ( ) around the email address.

I don't know if this fixes your problem...but atleast it's a step in a direction for an answer I hope. Or hopefully it will spark some genious idea in your head and you'll get it figured out! (knock on wood)

Have a great day...
Jami

[JayBee]

Cheers for the pointers, but I think I "sussed" what seems to be causing the problem.

It appears that there is some address limit in effect at my end, in that if I try to send to more than 27 addresses, Mail will just hang.

I'm not sure if this is a local problem, or if it's some sort of limit by my ISP. Mail seems to be trying to authenticate each address (maybe with the ISP's DNS?) , and perhaps my ISP doesn't like that sort of behaviour. Whatever, the problem is "solved" by chopping my mailing lists into chunks of 27. Not ideal.

Any further ideas? Is there some way I can switch off this "authentication", or do I just have a crap ISP? :D

[jkuehn1010]

Hey you may want to call the ISP and see what your email limit is. I used to work for GTE and if you didn't have a "business account" they would limit you to like 50 emails a day or something evil like that. Cause what person sitting in their living room sends out more then 50 emails a day? And some people try and scam the ISP cause home accounts are WAYYY cheaper then business accounts...so that's the way they keep tabs on ya...is limit how many emails you can send out.

So if you don't have a business account with your local ISP that may be a reason why it won't let you send out more then 27 emails at a time.

Ah just a small pebble in the barrell of confussion. Hope this leads you further towards an answer.

Jami K.

[JayBee]

Thanks - gonna scour the AU policy and fire off some emails to the ISP tonight.

And before people start thinking that I'm the 5p4m-m45t3r, the mailing lists are for this film society:

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Glasgow University Film Society (http://www.gufs.co.uk/)
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:)