mail to multiple users

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Helmut Weigel wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I 've got a question about how messages are stored on the system.
>
> Think of the following situation:
>
> I have a huge number of users in my mailstore, lets say 50000.
>
> And now i want to send one single email, maybe with a fully featured 150 
> Pages colored PDF Attachment, to them all.
>
> Can you see any chance, that this message is just stored once in the 
> mailstore and there are 50000 references /links to that email?
>
> What would the MTA have to tell cyrus to do that, if even possible?
>
> I think a way around this are public imap folders. But it would be great if 
> the first szenario would be possible.
>
> Can anybody put a little light on this?

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/download/imapd/overview.html#singleinstance

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