The message was sent using:
cat testmessage | exim -bm -odqs
Which, as I read the documentation, should have just put it in the queue.
The queue runner was expected to take care of the sorting by hosts.
Dirk
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Tim Cutts wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> > cat message| exim -bm ...
>
> I used exim to send a message to 1,300 recipients last week. Admittedly,
> most of them were local deliveries, but wouldn't it be more sensible to
> send these messages sorted according to remote site and then include
> multiple recipients in each message? This can't have been too difficult
> to do, and would make the process (and the bandwidth consumed) much
> smaller.
>
> My 1,300 recipient mailing was mostly delivered by this Silicon Graphics
> machine in a few seconds, with just three entries left in the queue after
> a minute or so. How much of that time was actually due to the perl script
> which sorted and batched the recipients, I do not know.
>
> Tim.
>
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