djb@??? said:
} [quoting me..]
} > If you route all the remote addresses you will normally find a
} > *large* number will have common MX hosts
} Unfortunately, this is not the case.
OK, wrong assumption => lousy suggestion
Thanks for doing the math - I assume that comes from the qmail list
breakdown. The majority of mailing lists I have handled previously
have had a UK bias, and the organisation of the ac.uk domain meant
that the original assertion would hold better.... but the world moves
on.
djb@??? said:
} bulk_mailer drastically increases the _disk space_ used by
} mailing-list messages. Instead of one copy of the message for a week,
} you have (say) twenty copies for a few hours, and ten copies for more
} than a day, and five copies that last the whole week. Mailing-list
} messages, in turn, represent a big part of the standing queue at
} typical sites---not because there are so many messages, but because
} each one lasts so long. Disks are cheap, but not cheap enough for a
} massive increase in the size of the mail queue.
[I have an advantage - I work in the same building as a *big*
distributor of disks!]
That, for exim, would lead back towards the idea of mulitple queue
control files linking to a single data file.
Nigel.
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