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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: ingr.general,comp.mail.elm,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP Activity & Data files
Keywords: E-mail
Message-ID: <1990Sep23.195239.4136@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 23 Sep 90 19:52:39 GMT
References: <1288@cyprus.INGR.COM> <1990Sep21.210245.6237@infonode.ingr.com> <R.+5I6D@xds13.ferranti.com>
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In article <R.+5I6D@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> > Think of a mail message of 30 pages mailed to one site with a long cc 
>> > list of peoble on the same site. Can't rmail take care the long cc list 
>> > with one execution ?
>
>SMAIL 2 (the real smail, as opposed to SMAIL 3 which is really GNU sendmail)
>does this. I don't know if SMAIL 3 does it as well, but I wouldn't be
>surprised.

Smail 3 lets you configure the maximum number of addresses to be expanded per
invocation of the underlying command.  The default configuration has the uux
to remote rmail set for a maximum of 5 addresses.  This should work with
everything except 4.1 BSD and some SCO Xenix versions.  There is also a
setup to generate bsmtp where any number of recpients can be specified in
the smtp header of a single message, and an optional mode to batch the
bsmtp messages to a host, compressing if desired.  The bsmtp modes obviously
require smail 3 on the remote side also, and batching messages doesn't help
unless you are willing to delay transmission to allow several to accumulate
for the same host.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us