On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> Mailers which are trying to be efficient in connectivity requirements have
> to route all the addresses first which leads to an initial delay - ie
> increased latency.
Mailers which permit senders to give incomplete addresses in the
messages's headers that then get rewritten, e.g. getting
To: ph10@cus
rewritten as
To: ph10@???
after a DNS lookup also have to do all the routing before doing any of
the sending, in order that all recipients of the message get a copy with
the same headers in it.
> I would however be interested in figures for remote deliveries - number of
> addresses in each envelope in a non smarthost configuration.
That could be obtained by scanning Exim logs. Indeed, I will hack my
script and do so:
Today on this system:
7000 messages
maximum number of recipients in one envelope: 44
average number of recipients in one envelope: 1.0725
This is all E&OE on my hacked up scriptlet.
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Philip Hazel University Computing Service,
ph10@??? New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG,
P.Hazel@??? England. Phone: +44 1223 334714
