Re: [exim] Limits on address expansion

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 14:28 +0000, Alain Williams wrote:
> I am adding something to an exim config that could result in a large number
> (20,000) email addresses. It is a secondary college and the ability to
> mail to a class or all students is wanted. The expansion will be done
> through class-list lookup in a mysql database. Several other complications
> of course (who can do it, don't auto-create new cyrus accounts, ...).
>
> Is this something that exim (on a reasonably powerful Linux box) could handle ?
> I can't see anything in the documentation that talks about this.

Exim will process the recipients of the message serially, so it may take
quite a while for the last student to get his copy. but Exim certainly
won't have a problem with it, nor make a problem for its host.

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Kjetil T.