Roger Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just ran a test where I created a single message file, with all headers,
> and the BCC list was 10,000+ copies of my own address on a remote domain. I
> used qmail-inject to send the message.
>
> What I expected to happen was for the local QMAIL to make a single
> connection to the remote domain, deliver the single message, and have the
> remote system make 10,000+ deliveries to the remote account.
>
> The local QMAIL logs seem to indicate that the local system actually sent
> 10,000+ separate messages to the remote domain, possibly in small batches.
qmail never batches recipients to remote domains. One of the (several)
reasons for this is it would make VERP impossible.
> If I can, I'll try to decifer the logs on the remote system to see what
> happened, but I am wondering (asking) what QMAIL's behavior is supposed to
> be when there are multiple recipients on a single message being sent to a
> remote domain.
qmail delivers each separately, as you have observed.
> Is there only a single copy of the message sent to the remote host in a
> single transaction?
No.
> Does the local QMAIL break down the local message into discrete messages,
> one per recipient, and then send them to the (same) remote host?
Yes.
Charles
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