----- Original Message ----- From: "NFN Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 9:28 AM Subject: [Mimedefang] Mail volume control
> [...] In our setup we do quite a bit of work with MD in rewriting our headers, > as a way of masking domains that we use only internally. One of the > effects of this is that when the rewriting is done, a message with > multiple recipients is generally broken apart at the time of rewriting, > so that there is one copy of the message per addressee. > > Where we're having occasional problems is when we have users who do > large personal mailings, sometimes as many as 400 or 500 recipients on a > single message. [...] Rather than resending a copy of the message to each and every recipient, how about just replacing the To: and Cc: headers with something innocuous, effectively making all of the recipients blind-carbon-copy (Bcc:) recipients instead? Another approach might be to send to groups of recipients: 1) insiders, who get full headers, and 2) outsiders, who get whitewashed headers. Either way, the mail server itself would only have to deliver a couple of messages (to many recipients) rather than hundreds of messages to individual recipients with the attendant load-multiplying effect. Chris Myers Networks By Design _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
