Thank you everyone for your input. I know now that I'm on the right track
with bcc.
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From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: faster than bcc
Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >cat list.txt | xargs qmail-inject -a <message.txt
> >where list.txt is a list of addresses. Is this faster than bcc
> >anyway?
> No. That creates one message per recipient--lots of disk I/O to do the
> same thing as one message, many recipients.
That should still do only one message, multiple recipients, shouldn't it?
Until, of course, the arg list becomes long enough for xargs to break it
down to 2 serial injections.
Charles
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