On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, John Henders wrote:
> Smail's one connection per delivery is death on MS Mail gateways, for
> example, and I've found it a problem with some busy unix hosts as well.
> So, in this case, I created a driver that handed the mail off to a copy
> of sendmail in queue-only mode. Then sendmail would deliver all the mail
> in one smtp connection and everything worked fine. However, I was hoping
> to avoid such tricks in exim.
Exim certainly does better than smail. I saw it deliver about 20
messages down one connection the other day.
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