On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:00:18AM -0800, Peter C. Norton wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:37:36AM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:17:08PM -0800, J C Lawrence wrote: > > > The problem isn't making them work with any MTA -- that's actually > > > fairly trivial. The problem is keeping IO loads on the host > > > reasonable with VERP with any MTA which is quite difficult. > > > > I don't see that there *is* any theoretical way to *keep* loads down > > with VERP, by it's very nature. > > The only way to make the load a non-issue is to support VERPs in the MTA. I > know qmail and courier support this. I wish that more MTA's did. Does > anyone know if postfix, exim, or sendmail expect to support VERPs?
Yes, but he *did* say "IO Load". If I'm sending 100 copies to @aol.com, without VERP, I send the message once. With VERP, I have to send it 100 times. Right, JC? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "If you don't have a dream; how're you gonna have a dream come true?" -- Captain Sensible, The Damned (from South Pacific's "Happy Talk") _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
