On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 16:57 +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Renaud Allard wrote:
>
> > In my mind, a normal mail server should only connect once and then
> > process all its mail to the remote server.
>
> Most legitimate MTAs will make concurrent connections to recipient hosts.
This includes Exim - if multiple near simultaneous messages for a remote
host arrive, or theres a couple queue runner processes hitting messages
that have been held for a while you will definitely get multiple
connections to the same target host.
Nigel.
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