Dave Crocker wrote in
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 |On 7/22/2025 3:09 AM, Claus Assmann wrote:
 |> What about mailing lists, e.g., ietf-*?
 |> Do they split mail going to multiple RCPTs at the same domain (/MX)
 |> into multiple transactions?
 |> If so, why? Just to simplify bounce management?
 |>
 |> For "commercial" mail single RCPT is probably the "standard" to
 |> allow for tracking.
 |
 |Again:  the discussion that took place on this working group mailing 
 |list was about /observed/ number of /SMTP/ sessions.  An SMTP session 
 |does not contain any information that distinguishes between 'individual' 
 |email and 'mailing list' email.  It's all the same to SMTP.
 |
 |So, apparently yes, they split the mail.

And again, i think you are wrong.
The problem is *why* they are doing this *today*.
They want proper identifiable bounce handling, for example.
Other than that certain things have personalized headers.
Other than that, and that is what *i* see *mostly*, of course
*single transaction* is used within a *single session*, because
you avoid sending the message DATA multiple times.
And if not *today*, it should be reenabled for *tomorrow*.
Mutilating this away from the base protocol because of a snapshot
in time and space does not seem to go to the right direction.
To end this with a general statement on the quality of discussions
that happen on this list.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
|
|During summer's humble, here's David Leonard's grumble
|
|The black bear,          The black bear,
|blithely holds his own   holds himself at leisure
|beating it, up and down  tossing over his ups and downs with pleasure
|
|Farewell, dear collar bear

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