On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:
> [Description of smail "problem" where changes in a list can
> effect things addressed to the list prior the change if those things
> are queud. See original if that is imcomprehensible]
> Yes. Exim works in exactly the same way if you let it do the list
> expansion. There are benefits. If an incorrect address in the list (or,
> more usually, a user's .forward file) gets corrected, Exim doesn't keep
> on trying the old, bad version.
I see that as a good thing.
> Is this a serious problem rather than a quirky oddity? It would be a
> fair bit of work to provide an option to do otherwise.
Would such an option be needed? One doesn't have to use the exim list
drivers, but could use something like bulk_mailer or tlb which are tools
associated with majordomo.
-j
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