From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 16 23:30:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA12330 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 23:30:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA12311 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 23:30:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id IAA17642 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 08:29:39 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.6.12) with UUCP id IAA27319 for hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 08:29:09 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.5/keltia-uucp-2.9) id HAA19524; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 07:34:48 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970417073448.18678@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 07:34:48 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail exploders... References: <199704161222.OAA02421@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; <199704161222.OAA02421@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.67 In-Reply-To: ; from Richard Wackerbarth on Wed, Apr 16, 1997 at 05:43:30PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#3195 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Richard Wackerbarth: > So are you saying that if there are 100 subscribers in the .fr domain, > 100 copies of each message are sent from California to France and from > there directed to the individual recipients? Not at all. The mailertable entry makes sendmail sending just one copy with all the recipients and mail-relay will then split the message for all the recipients with the MX. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #41: Sun Mar 23 23:01:22 CET 1997