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From: nick@eunet.ie (Nick Hilliard)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.smail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sendmail vs. Smail...
Date: 9 Dec 1996 14:13:53 -0000
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John Saunders (john@pacer.nlc.net.au) said:
: qmail sends each recipient their own message rather than using a single
: message for both. The Qmail author says that in practice this scenario is
: very rare, also for a link with lots of BW and a slow round trip time it's
: faster to send 2 messages at the same time than 1 message with an extra
: receipient.

Very rare?  Two extra complete SMTP negotiations and transmissions faster
than a single RCPT?

How interesting.

Nick