Joe Pruett <joey(_at_)teleport(_dot_)com> wrote:
the examples in the sendmail 8.6.12 sources for using procmail as the
main delivery agent have it set up without the 'm' mailer flag which
means that mail to multiple recipients means multiple invocations of
procmail. is this strictly necessary? the man page for procmail seems
It's cleaner. If mail bounces to any one of the recipients, the sender
will get a clean bounce. If 'm' was used, the mail bounces for all
recipients (even though it has been delivered to some).
Also, if some recipient stalls the delivery for a relatively long time
in his/her .procmailrc, the other recipients won't get their mail either
if the 'm' flag is used.
to indicate that it should work. are there security or other issues
with adding the 'm' flag in? we have things working quite well now
No.
without the 'm', but we do have a lot of people on a lot of mailing
lists so we'd like to eliminate as much overhead as possible.
The overhead is negligible, I'd recommend against using the 'm' flag.
But, if you really insist, you can use it of course (procmail can
handle it, if thrown at it).
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Sincerely,
srb(_at_)cuci(_dot_)nl
Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).
"Be spontaneous!"