[MlMt] I need a email provider with: catchall receiving - wildcard sending

Randall Gellens mailmate at randy.pensive.org
Fri Aug 30 13:28:44 EDT 2024


On 30 Aug 2024, at 10:15, Henry Seiden wrote:

> My wish is for (SMTP) servers to support higher levels of group sends 
> as BCC. Many severely limited that to <=50 or less (AWS) without 
> further charges (as a commercial client). I find this disappointing.
>
> Any SMTP Servers that do otherwise?

This seems like a configuration choice and hence up to different service 
providers. I'm unaware of any SMTP servers with built-in limits. Mine 
doesn't. From an SMTP perspective, the various message header fields are 
irrelevant to the SMTP protocol (aside from trace header fields); there 
is no difference at an SMTP level between 'To:' addresses and 'Bcc:' 
addresses.

It's always risky to use the 'Bcc' field, though, because it's too easy 
to accidentally put the addresses in 'To' or "Cc". It's generally better 
to use a mailing list. Many SMTP servers support their own crude mailing 
lists (simple address expansion) and of course there are many mailing 
list servers available, such as Mailman.

--Randall


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