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Address pools

Named groups of sending addresses, referenced by name in a message's job data.

In detail

A pool is a name and a description. Its value is that a message can ask for it by name, and the name appears in logs and results — so "which pool sent this" is answerable after the fact. The constraint that shapes everything: an address belongs to at most one pool, and any address not assigned is in the default pool. PowerMTA allows an address to sit in several virtual-MTA pools; here the model is a partition, and a plan that assumes overlapping pools has to be redesigned rather than translated.