miss addressed mail

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Fri Nov 5 03:13:31 UTC 2004


Am Fr, den 05.11.2004 schrieb Ow Mun Heng um 4:05:

> > (note: some mail servers, notably qmail, always send mail to a single 
> > recipient at a time even if there are multiple recipients for the mail at a 
> > domain, and others can be configured to do so. Whilst this is very 
> > inefficient, particularly for large messages, mail you receive from such mail 
> > servers should always cause your mail server to add the "for" clause in the 
> > Received: header)
> 
> Does sendmail has the same behavior. I would like to know as well since
> it _is_ very inefficient.

No, Sendmail sends multiple "RCPT TO:" with one mail.

sendmail[31362]: iA539ZvT031349: to=<foo at uni-x.org>,<bar at uni-x.org>,
ctladdr=<alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> ...

Alexander


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