On   Mon,    12   Dec   1994    10:26:47   +0100   Herman    Van   Uytven
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>1) will listserv group the mails  for people within the same domain (all
>   users have an E-mail  address [log in to unmask]; there are
>   some 50 xxx, with 1 to 800 users in an xxx).
 
Assuming you have *.KULEUVEN.AC.BE in the  LOCAL variable, yes it will do
that.
 
>2) Assuming that for each xxx only one or a few mails are send to lmail,
>   will lmail keep them together when send to SMTP ?
 
Yes.
 
>3) What will  SMTP do if it  receives one RDR file with  various RCPT TO
>   lines ? Will it  receive only one file on disk, and  send them in one
>   'stream' (with more RCPT TO's in one connection, or will it use RSET,
>   or what will it do ?).
 
It will  save them as  a single  file and put  all the recipients  on one
connection whenever possible.
 
>People told me that on UNIX  sendmail+ida performs badly if we would use
>listserv on UNIX for the same  purpose. zmail would performe better, but
>we need sendmail+IDA for other purposes. Would it be possible to install
>e.g. zmail not listening on port 25 and use UNIX listserv
>+ zmail to get the 3000 mails out as soon as possible ?
 
Why not install sendmail 8.6?
 
  Eric