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On Monday, November 17, 2003 2:04 am, Jeff Jansen wrote:
>
> [ s n i p ]
>
> Dear Jason,
>
> One additional piece of information that might or might not be an issue for
> you.  When you set up a smart host (forwarding all your mail to one mail
> server for delivery) courier still separates the mail into queues based on
> the host mailserver.  What this means is that if you send a message to
> "someone@hotmail.com" and "someone@aol.com", two identical copies of the
> message will be sent to your ISP - one copy addressed to the user at
> hotmail.com and one copy addressed to the user at aol.com.  So if you send
> a message to 10 people at 10 different mail hosts, then 10 (identical)
> copies of the message will be sent to your ISP's mail server.
>
> If you have good bandwidth and/or don't pay for connection time then this
> isn't an issue.  But if you do then it can be really annoying.  We're with
> Wycliffe Bible Translators in West Africa and we pay for local phone calls
> to our ISP by the minute so this really bumped our costs up.  So I've
> patched courier so that it sends only one copy of the message to a smart
> host when one is defined in esmtproutes.  If you're interested let me know
> and I'll send you the patch.
>
> It's annoying to have to patch courier each time I upgrade, but not nearly
> as annoying as one of our folks sending out a prayer letter to 200 people
> at 150 different mail hosts and paying to send the identical message 150
> times to our smart host! :-)
>
> Jeff Jansen
> SIL International (www.sil.org)
> Bamako, Mali


Jeff, thanks for the info and the offer.  I believe we are OK for the time, 
but if that changes, I will let you know.  :^)


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Jason Flatt (jason @ flattfamily . com)
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