[Mailman-Developers] Re: way to minimize IO load with MTAsupported VERP

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:00:11AM -0800, Dan Mick wrote:
> A thing I hadn't thought about: if the local MTA senses that the remote
> MTA *also* supports XVERP, it doesn't have to do the expansion
> itself; it can simply send on one XVERP-ed multirecipient message,
> and let the final MTA handle the envelope multiplication.


Which would be the True Win... but *absolutely requires* an RFC for
verp syntax, which will have to be extensible.  No, really.  It will.
Take my word for it.  :-)

*I* think that sending a VERP template, with a spot marked for the
destination MTA to put the destination email address, would be the most
flexible approach.

Cheers,
-- jra
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