Yes it does make multiple simultaneous outbound connections. This is
configurable in the remote delivery mailet configuration, where you can set
the number of delivery threads.
As for thundering herd issue, no it doesn't merge messages to deliver
multiple messages in a single connection. It will see that 14 of the 80
recipients of a message go to the same server and send them all at once, but
it does not compare what servers are needed for all the messages in the
queue and combine accordingly. Given the minimal overhead of the SMTP
protocol, I don't know how big a value that is?.. I guess for very large
traffic flows it could be useful, but determining this almost seems more
difficult than the protocol savings.
Serge Knystautas
Loki Technologies
http://www.lokitech.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 2:54 PM
Subject: Multiple Outbound Connections?
> Does James make multiple, simultaneous outbound connections? If so, does
> it have a safeguard against 'thundering herd' where the server connects
> to the same remote domain a whole ton of times?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Rob Williams
>
>
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