Basically, an email server can send non-unique mail to multiple recipients simultaneously but customized mail is one recipient at a time whether the sending mail server is iMS or not.
Regards, Howie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim McAtee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 12:32 AM Subject: Re: (Admin) List Question > What's the normal iMS behavior if those messages aren't customized? > > I wonder at the bandwidth (and processing) savings of doing this for a large > and/or very busy mailing list. No doubt it's dependant on the nature of the > list, but professional lists similar to this one probably have a fair number of > situations with multiple member addresses in a domain. Other lists, say where > people commonly use yahoo, hotmail, msn accounts would probably see even larger > savings by delivering a single message instead of, in some cases, hundreds to a > domain. > > I hadn't noticed the customized unsubscribe link in the message footers. I've > seen other lists do this and some that just tell you what email address you've > used to subscribe. I would think that on a large mailing list this > customization involves a significant amount of processing to regenerate every > message for every single list member. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
