On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 04:21:29 +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
