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

Dan Mick dan.mick@west.sun.com
Fri, 07 Dec 2001 13:21:00 -0800


"Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
> 
> 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.  :-)

Oh, absolutely.
 
> *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.

?  You're talking about some other ESMTP extension then?