On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Boyle Owen wrote:
> Excellent explanation - I had misunderstood the status of the To and Cc
> and so on. Of course; all that matters is the RCPT TO fields.. In that
> case, the delivery process is handled with maximum parsimony with each
> MTA making as few SMTP transactions as possible so that the mails fan
> out in a tree-pattern (I had feared a star pattern).
That is true for Exim in its default configuration. Other MTAs may
behave differently, and Exim can be configured to behave differently
too, by setting the max_rcpt on the smtp transport.
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