Mark,

If  you  consider this at a deeper level, it violates the listserv(tm)
concept. Mailing lists streamline the creation of outgoing messages to
subscribers by creating a relatively small number of identical message
header/body  data  files  that  are  then  "chunked"  to  the list via
different message envelopes with a number of subscribers in each. This
mechanism  helps  keep thousands of messages from piling up in Imail's
spool  folder  (of  course,  Scott  Perry has written of, and treated,
Imail's  difficulty in managing the sudden injection of these messages
into  the  queue, but there would be even more significant problems if
thousands  of  list messages each took up a separate file). If you had
different  headers  for  each  message, you'd have to create different
data  files  for  every  subscriber,  which  would then clog the spool
folder and create a bunch of fun.

If you want to customize outgoing mail to a list, you'll be better off
mail-merging  and  sending  the  messages  from  a  client.  That way,
hopefully,  the  streaming ability of your client would provide a sort
of  helpful  throttling.  There  certainly could be scripts written to
read  the  list  membership files and gen the messages from the server
itself,  but  they'd  still  be  separate  messages  and would not use
Imail's  mailing list module, IMAILSRV, as intended. Anyway, if you're
going to do this, you should spare the server the horsepower necessary
to generate the messages and just let it concentrate on sending them.

Sandy


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