On Mon, 12 Dec 1994 10:26:47 +0100 Herman Van Uytven <[log in to unmask]> said: >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