km@emory.UUCP (11/23/86)
Right now our sendmail.cf sends most of our offsite mail to a relay via SMTP (csnet-relay over x25net if it matters). I have the mailer properly configured to send letters with multiple addresses all at once, and that works fine. The problem is that when sendmail runs the queue it tries to handle each item separately. If the queue consists of all letters going to the same SMTP site, it will one by one setup and tear down a series of connections to that site. If the site is a busy one, it is likely that this will fail before running the queue. If it is very busy it may well fail after the first letter. I don't see anything in the doc to help, but just in case I am missing something, is there a way to make sendmail send multiple letters from the queue with the same destination with one SMTP connection? One more related question. What I call the sendmail queue looks more like a stack. If a smtp connection fails and a letter is deferred, it appears to me that it will be further down the list than mail sent later. If only one letter ends up being sent per run of the "queue", and new mail appears on the average of one per run, old mail will be indefinitely postponed. Is there a way around this latter problem? -- Ken Mandelberg | {akgua,sb1,gatech}!emory!km USENET Emory University | km@emory CSNET,BITNET Dept of Math and CS | km.emory@csnet-relay ARPANET Atlanta, Ga 30322