----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Chittenden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Per Einar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: Sendmail or not?
> if you | to sendmail, then you still fork. Mail::Sendmail, I
> bet dime to dollar, forks and execs a process. The only way to avoid
> forking is to open a socket and send the message via SMTP (or QMQP if
> you want to pimp your system out with qmail). Unless you're on AIX or
> solaris and performance is an issue, fork and get the job done w/
> minimal headaches. -sc
No, Mail::Sendmail sends through SMTP. That's why I talked about it.
So, you're saying that I should just fork anyway? Will there be a big
performance loss on Linux? And should I use Apache::Subprocess for this, or
just go ahead with a standard pipe?
Per Einar Ellefsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
