sendmail message splitting defeats bandwidth savings?

[Peter Peters]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 12:28:42 -0500, you wrote:

>Maybe an idea...
>
>Have MailScanner split and resubmit the message, as needed by the rule
>sets, to sendmail on the loopback interface before spam or virus
>checking happens. Then sendmail can control its own queue numbers and
>the message will be single recipient per message for the rest of the
>checks.

This would put an extra burden on the system because each message has to
go through the sendmail processes a couple of extra times.

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