On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 01:23:17PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
> Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Dave Sill wrote:
> >>
> >> ...with sendmail, one process delivers to all
> >> recipients, and only one connection is ever open to a remote
> >> site. ...
> >
> >Hmm very untrue in fact. Sendmail will under several circumstances
> >[none of which I will explain here but some of which are quite
> >common] open several connections to the same remote host, even for
> >the same domain.
>
> You got me. Of course you're right. I meant to say that when
> delivering a single message "immediately", i.e., not from the queue,
> sendmail will only open one connection at a time.
No, that is one of the circumstances I'm referring to. If two incoming connections
each deliver a mail to the same remote destination, sendmail will happily fork() for
both and deliver them at the same time.
Greetz, Peter
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