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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