Re: qmail remote delivery logic

[Sam]

On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:

> Sam writes:
>  > Russell Nelson writes:
>  > 
>  > > Jim B writes:
>  > >  > Can someone point me at the location of a document that explains why qmail 
>  > >  > would deliver, for example, a msg to 5 recipients at the same remote domain 
>  > >  > with 5 individual smtp connections instead of one smtp connection and 
>  > >  > multiple RCPT TOs?
>  > > 
>  > > Because it's faster.
>  > 
>  > Only under certain conditions.  Try sending a 1 MB attachment to a dozen
>  > recipients.
> 
> Have you?

Yes.  Even off a T1, there's a measurable difference between ~10 MB and ~1
MB worth of traffic.