At 14:02 27/10/1999 -0400, Gunther Birznieks wrote:
>The advantage of using sendmail is
>
>[1] a centralised MTA config.
>[2] Graceful handling of problems and requeueing of messages if the SMTP
>server specified by Net::SMTP would normally be down. eg automatic
>resilience based on MX record rerouting can be nice.
>
>Although in a mod_perl situation, I understand the launching of a system
>call is not the best thing to do. However, it could be if sendmail itself
>is launched to asynchronously handle the posting of the mail while the
>cript continues on (if the mail server were otherwise slow for some
>reason).
To pretend this roughly on-topic, we'll say that the problem is actually to
avoid spawning an external process everytime you want to send mail (which
is imho the only problem with using sendmail). So far I have solved this by
writing all emails to a file which gets rotated by a cron job. It's worked
fine for me.
.Robin
Critic, n.: A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries
to please him.
