At 08:45 PM 12/17/99 , Sam wrote:
>[snip]
>Also aliasing as in mailing lists. One nice feature of sendmail is that
>it dedups addresses after expanding them.
>
>This is one reason Qmail will never be used in any enterprise-scale
>system. The large international 800 pound gorilla I currently consult for
>uses alias-based mailing lists rather extensively. Pretty much everyone
>gets subscribed to at least a dozen mailing lists as part of the company's
>welcome wagon.
>[snip]
>Now, you can't run something like that with Qmail and ezmlm. Pretty much
>any kind of memo is sent out to at least three or four mailing lists.
>Since everything is kept as, basically, one huge mail alias file, sendmail
>dedups the recipient list after expanding it (and, yes, as long as you run
>a sendmail farm on a large enough ring of big honking UNIX boxes with more
>CPUs than most people have fingers on their hands, the performance is
>quite acceptable).
>
>This is an absolute requirement for any enterprise-scale environment. If
>everyone started to get three or four copies of the same memo, this would
>get old pretty quickly.
>
If somebody sent a memo to "A-project" and "Management-A", and I was a
member of both lists, I would expect to receive two emails so I could get
them archived in my appropriate mail folder (. I would hope you could
disable this 'feature' in sendmail if you wanted.
OFF TOPIC: Actually, I rather hate this use of email in the corporate
world. USENET news is much more appropriate. The email notifier is
constantly 'in-your-face' with trivial issues or issues that are "not my
problem". You find people posting to the list when there is just 10% of
the list that it applies to; it's just easier to post to the list than to
address individually to 10 people. BTW, when I was an employee in this
situation, I would turn my email off all day, and just check my email first
thing in the morning. Topically 30 messages, and topically less than five
related to me at all.
#
