[Mailman-Developers] Re: Theoretical way to minimize IO load with MTA supported VERP

[Peter C. Norton]

Yeah, reading the courier docs mrsam has implemented something like that.
It is a good idea.

-Peter

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 04:59:50PM -0500, tneff@bigfoot.com wrote:
> If one was willing to extend SMTP again, it would be theoretically possible 
> to send one copy of a message to aol.com for 100 recipients with a form of 
> VERP, using an extended syntax like
> 
> 	MAIL FROM:mylist-owner@mydomain.com
> 	250 mylist-owner@mydomain.com... Sender ok
> 	RCPT TO:johnsmith@aol.com EPFX:johnsmith-aol.com-
> 	250 johnsmith@aol.com... Recipient ok
> 	RCPT TO:joerandom@aol.com EPFX:joerandom-aol.com-
> 	250 joerandom@aol.com... Recipient ok
> 	DATA
> 
> and the receiving MTA would prepend the EPFX value to the envelope sender 
> for each recipient.

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In five years we'll make up another plan.
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