Re: Multiple recipients to remote domain

[Charles Cazabon]

Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:20:57AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> [snip]
> > > Is there only a single copy of the message sent to the remote host in a
> > > single transaction?
> > 
> > No.
> 
> Hmm, this confuses me.
> 
> Every transaction contains one message. There are 10.000 transactions.
> This may or may not be a 'yes' or 'no' to the question.

To clarify:  no, qmail will not send one copy of the message to 10000
recipients at a single MX in a single transaction.

Instead, qmail will establish 10000 SMTP sessions (transactions) to that MX,
and deliver a single copy of the message to one recipient in each of those
sessions.

Charles
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