On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 02:53:41PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You're missing a point: the message is sent with a couple of 100 recipients.
> All these recipients will bounce the message - separately.
No it doesn't :) Try it (with qmail, of course) One message with failed
deliveries results in *one* bounce message with a list of the failures
enclosed. [See below]
> There's your amplification :)
Each additional failure adds a few bytes. Not exactly earth-shattering :)
james
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IE Domain Registry, University College Dublin Computing Services,
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>From MAILER-DAEMON Thu Mar 02 14:10:57 2000
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Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: (qmail 14057 invoked for bounce); 2 Mar 2000 14:10:57 -0000
Date: 2 Mar 2000 14:10:57 -0000
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: failure notice
Status: RO
Content-Length: 1202
Lines: 35
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at banba.domainregistry.ie.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
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Received: (qmail 14050 invoked by uid 510); 2 Mar 2000 14:10:56 -0000
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:10:56 +0000
From: James Raftery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bouncy, bouncy
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i
Hmm
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James Raftery (JBR54) - Programmer Hostmaster - IE TLD Hostmaster
IE Domain Registry, University College Dublin Computing Services,
Computer Centre, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
http://www.domainregistry.ie/ Ph: (+353 1) 7062375 Fx: (+353 1) 7062862
