1 Topic by markpike

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Topic: 451 4.6.0 Alias expansion error

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Client is trying to send to a mailing list (alias) which has approx 2000 recipients.
Upon send, they are receiving the following error: 451 4.6.0 Alias expansion error

Any idea on how to correct this?

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2 Reply by ZhangHuangbin

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Re: 451 4.6.0 Alias expansion error

You can try to increase value of Postfix parameter 'virtual_alias_expansion_limit', for example:

# postconf -e virtual_alias_expansion_limit=2500
# service postfix reload

Default value is 1000.

Reference: http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html# … sion_limit