On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:33:51 EDT, "Okseniak, Edward" said:
> I should have described the overall process. We presently build e-mail
> messages from a legacy database on our mainframe. Those messages are built
> with SMTP commands associated with each message and then forwarded to a SMTP
> queue for release to our mail exchange server. These e-mail messages are
> created with some personalization associated with each message which makes
> it impossible for us to do a mail merge process with ListServ.
>
> I was hoping that we might be able to process in the same using the
> DISTRIBUTE command. We have seen a large increase in the number of e-mail we
> process so we're looking to move off of SMTP to some other mail handler....

Right - but Listserv isn't a mail handler - so it's just going to hand
it off to whatever IS the mail handler.

I'll be more than happy to discuss tuning issues off-list, because it sounds
like that's your real problem...

/Valdis