On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Fernando Costa de Almeida wrote:
> Im studing exim because I will have to implement a mailing list
> system. Reading the online documentation about exim, it says (please correct
> me if I was wrong) that exim can queue messages to the same domain
> and send then in a single smtp connection.
Under some conditions, yes.
> 1) run exim;
> 2) run this simple script
> while (true); do; echo "a" | mail -s "TEST"
> <recipient_in_another_domain>
These are not the conditions (assuming you have a default Exim
configuration). Exim will start up a delivery process as soon as it
receives the first message; that will succeed, and so never get "queued"
in any sense. Same for the other messages.
If you want to pile up messages for one connection, don't call "mail",
call exim directly, with the -odqs option. Then, when you have got all
your messages on the queue, run exim -q to deliver them.
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