OT: building new server, need MTA advice

[Matt Hampton]

Chris Yuzik wrote:
> Peter Russell wrote:
>> Dont forget to mention that postfix cannot and probably never will be
>> able to split emails that are addressed to multiple recipients into
>> multiple queue files, so you the one email can be subject to various
>> rules, depending on who it was addressed to.
> Hmmm. That's interesting. And this is something that Sendmail does now?
> Or does Sendmail need to be hacked to support this?
> 
> I don't think we're really doing any of this now, and am not sure how
> important this feature would be. Anyone else doing this?
> 
> Chris
> 

Sendmail supports it now and we use it extensively - postfix also
supports it (Glenn is about to kill me ;-)) but it is more of a bodge.

http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#multiple_recipient_message_-_how_to_apply_different_rules

This feature is important as you may wish apply different rules to
different people.  If you don't split the envelope then the rules are
applied to the first email address in the envelope.

matt