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From: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: multiple spool messages to same computer
Message-ID: <88@dsinc.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 89 02:40:50 GMT
References: <551@ivucsb.UUCP>
Reply-To: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
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In article <551@ivucsb.UUCP> todd@ivucsb.UUCP (Todd Day) writes:
:I am using elm 2.1.  One thing I just noticed is that if I send the same
:message to
:sitea!siteb!person sitea!person sitea!sitec!person
:
:elm will generate a different message in the spool directory for each
:person.  /bin/mail seems to set up a rmail to 
:siteb!person person sitec!person
:all going to sitea.  This makes only one message in the spool file.
:
:Will 2.2 fix this?
No,  and there is a reason behind this.

Unfortunately, many rmail's out there cannot handle more than
one address per message.  It's a shame, but it is so.  (Xenix
is one).

Thus as a 'least common demoninator' we split them.
Sorry.


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