On 2005-05-12 19:50:32 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2005, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > The main problem with this solution is that many MTAs will retry only after > > the queue interval (typically several minutes to a few hours, but > > sometimes with an exponential backoff). If the list of recipients is > > large, it will take a long time to deliver the mail to all recipients (I > > have seen legitimate mails to 100+ recipients in our logs - assuming a > > queue interval of 30 minutes, that means more than two days until it has > > been delivered to the last recipient). > > So far in my testing, this is only the case with postfix. qmail, > Intermail, and sendmail split everything into separate queue entries, so > they are all separate connections in roughly the same time span.
Which version of sendmail? I specifically had sendmail in mind when I
wrote that.
hp
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