On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Nick Simicich wrote:
> >* Password, versus other methods of authentication. I lean towards a
>
> Before I know this, I wonder if it is possible to easily batch commands
> using the cookie method? For example, I just subscribed a bunch of people
> to one list by making a shell one liner that inserted passwords and
> subscribed them. Can I do that easily with cookies?
Yes. Once you have a cookie, it works along the lines of:
adminvfy <cookie> <list>
<command1>
<command2>
<command3>
[...]
adminend
You can generate the wrapper pre-filled with the commands. (e.g. instead
of just 'admin <list>' to request an empty wrapper, you can do 'admin2
<list>' and fill out commands between it and 'adminend2', and the wrapper
will automatically be filled out and just needs to be forwarded back).
> >* Built-in sorting on domain, for the outgoing user list. A good thing,
> > or a bad thing? It tends to REALLY improve sendmail's performance, but
>
> Why is it ever bad? Because the sort for large lists represents a memory
> usage bubble? In my case, I don't think it would matter.
Exactly. The majority of qsort implementations are not the most memory
efficient in the situation of large lists. For a list of 2,000, it
doesn't matter. For a list of 20,000, it starts to hurt. On the other
hand, a list of 20,000 is where it could also do a lot of good, on a
sendmail platform...
--Loki
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