Re: retry question

[Tony Finch <dot@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, SM wrote:
> At 09:32 AM 8/5/2008, Tony Finch wrote:
> >
> > "When a mail message is to be delivered to multiple recipients, and
> > the SMTP server to which a copy of the message is to be sent is the
> > same for multiple recipients, then only one copy of the message SHOULD
> > be transmitted."
>
> That favors one connection over using a different connection for each
> recipient as that can cause resource issues.

It says nothing about connections: you can send multiple copies of a
message down the same connection.

> If you are going to temporary fail the transaction because the first
> recipient got a 4yz reply, you may end up never being able to attempt a
> delivery for the other recipients.

I know that, but there's evidence that some implementers don't understand
it.

Tony.
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