On Thu, 12 May 2005, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> 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.
Sendmail (8.12.11)
Also got back mixed results with Exchange - one of them, directly
connected to the net, sent them as qmail does, all separately. The other
sent them all as a single package, via a smarthost (InterMail, which
previously split them apart when originated on that MTA), which forwarded
them on as a complete package. So far, I have only gotten the 1st of 3
from that smarthosted Exchange server.
