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- From: ephraim@techunix.technion.ac.il (Ephraim Silverberg)
- Subject: Remote Mail Group Deferments
- Organization: Technion, Israel Inst. of Technology
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 08:45:34 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.084534.24443@discus.technion.ac.il>
- Keywords: group sendmail deferment
- Sender: news@wang.com
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- Please reply by e-mail if you can assist me with this sendmail problem:
-
- I am sending mail from machine "local" to "group@remote" where "group"
- is a mail alias on machine "remote" expanded to something like
-
- group:user1,user2,user3@host3,user4@host4.domain4,user5,...
-
- The problem is that when a connection is opened from "local" to
- "remote" if any of the user addresses in the group is not reachable
- at the time, the "local" sendmail gets a defered message and the
- message remains in the "local" mqueue. At the next queue run, the
- process is repeated with most of the recipients receiving an additional
- copy of the mail message since the local machine is unaware that
- "group" is a group and resends the message as is. Thus members of the
- group get multiple copies of the message (i.e. the process continues
- until all members of the group are reachable simultaneously).
-
- How can I get around this problem? Ideally, I would want to send the
- message the first time to "remote"'s mqueue and have it responsible
- for delivering each copy individually or something of that nature.
-
- Please reply by e-mail only. Thanks.
-
- Ephraim
-
- ephraim@techunix.technion.ac.il
-