On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Steve Falla wrote:
> My presumption from the docs was that 2 deliveries down the same connection
> were
> marked with the asterisk.
Yes. Two *messages* down the same connection use the asterisk. That is
what is meant by "two deliveries". Two recipients in the *same* delivery
use the -> notation. You can get asterisks only on remote deliveries.
However, you can get -> on local deliveries if you set batch_max greater
than 1 in a local transport.
Looking at it another way, the -> notation is used when no additional
copy of the message itself is sent. Thus, if you count => lines, you are
counting the number of copies of message bodies that are delivered. The
-> lines just indicate additional recpients that tag onto another
delivery. If you are, for example, accounting for volumes of data
delivered, you should exclude -> lines because they do not represent
deliveries of copies of messages.
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