Re: [exim] Limits on address expansion

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Author: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Limits on address expansion
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 04:21:29 +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme
<kjetilho@???> wrote:
>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.


I was just bitten by this, and a postfix user of course immediately
claimed that postfix does not have a message-level lock and will
deliver to multiple recipients of a single message simultaneously.

This might be off-topic here, but can somebody say whether this is
true?

Greetings
Marc

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