[404] in Moira
Re: Moira should allow multiple email addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon A. Rochlis)
Sun May 24 12:27:31 1992
Date: Sun, 24 May 92 00:57:05
From: jon@MIT.EDU (Jon A. Rochlis)
To: "Barr3y Jaspan" <bjaspan@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Cc: mlc@MIT.EDU (Mark Curby), bug-moira@MIT.EDU, postmaster@MIT.EDU
> This could easily increase the load on the mail servers substantially,
> as multiple copies of every message start being sent.
>
Not necessarily. If some effort were made to keep each address on the
same po server (not unlikely given the trend to decrease the number of
po's given the pending arrival of the DS5000's), you have no extra load
on the mail hub and only a slight load and space usage increase on the
po's.
Also only a small number of users will take advantage of this. So you
really aren't likely to get multiple copies of "every" message.
> The right solution is for each user's mail reader to do any
> reforwarding.
That won't work. One of the things you want to do is have a secretary
read your mail when you're not around. You mail reader is never invoked
if you're not reading the mail.
This allows more context-sensitive action and
> distributes the load off the mail server.
>
True you could do a lot more with smarts in the mail reader (ala the
lens stuff), but decreasing load on the mail hub is not the reason you'd
want to.
You can achieve this now by setting your pobox to contain two addresses
but I think that means you don't get hesiod pobox info (which is the
point Mark was trying to make).
-- Jon
