John Buckman writes:
> Actually, we had to do this, or risk crashing other people's SMTP
> servers. Many people have sendmail badly configured, and opening up
> 100 simultaneous SMTP sessions to them would do bad things. At the
> very least, it would block all other incoming mail while this was
> happening. At worst, it could crash them. So, Lyris will open up to
> 10 simultaneous connections to a single host, and will serialize the
> message sends into those connections.
But if you didn't muck with the To: header, you could open one
connection, send all of the addresses in a batch and then send
one copy of the body.
This places a much lower load on the intervening network(s) and
also on the receiving machine.
-Jeff
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Re: Lyris
From: "John Buckman" <jbuckman@shelby.com>
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