grs@alobar.ATT.COM (Gregg Siegfried) (10/17/88)
In article <12831@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: > >I've never seen an rmail that supports multicasting (multiple recipients >in one rmail), although I'm told they exist. Any mailer that depends on >rmail supporting multiple addresses is incompatible with the rest of the >world. Smail does this. I've always considered it a very efficient feature. If I mail a file to a number of people, smail sends only one copy of the file, and 1 rmail command with multiple recipients. It sure saves uucp bandwidth if you're only running 1200 or 2400 modems. Every other machine in our organization runs a standard SVR2 mailer, and it groks the multiple recipient rmail commands quite nicely. Thus, I keep a lot of exploders and aliases on alobar, to keep 40 copies of the same message from being sent between machines. If something is being sent to blech!user1 blech!user2 blech!ringo!phil, it will be sent to blech as rmail user1 user2 ringo!phil. Works beautifully. I only wish it was smart enough to combine them when somebody sends the same message *through* my machine to numerous people. ;-)/2 >++Brandon Gregg -- Gregg Siegfried - AT&T | "When you entered my office, you entered my 513-629-8314 | own electronically synthesized Universe... UUCP: grs@alobar.att.com | You would never have survived the Vortex in ARPA: grs%alobar@att.arpa | the real one." - Douglas Adams