Dan Melomedman wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 09:56:04PM +0200, Przemyslaw Wegrzyn wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Erich Schubert wrote:
> >
> > > Courier "maild" came up in some mail - does someone have experiences
> > > with this MTA? As i'm running courier-imap and courier-pop happily, and
> > > afaik they do have native ldap support, don't they?
> > > and they do have a licence you can use for developing...
> > > hey, and courier support qmail-style virtual-domains ;)
> >
> > AFAIK it supports LDAP for authentication and aliases, only... :|
> >
> > -=Czaj-nick=-
>
> I haven't used it, but according to Mr. Sam it was developed because
> Qmail wasn't enough. For example Qmail accepts messages to non-existing
> users, then bounces. Why? Also Qmail isn't smart enough to deliver one
> message to a domain with many recipients instead of many copies of the
> same message. I guess Courier is the next big thing in open MTAs.
> But why would I choose Courier or Qmail if I am some huge ISP for instance?
> Huge ISPs require much more scalable models than
> run-a-bunch-of-processes-per-connection servers.
No, they don't.
> I wish to see a good multi-threaded open MTA in the future.
> Is it too much to ask for?
Yes, multi-threading is not more than a buzzword. It does not solve
any problem for this kind of application. First think about it before
you jump on a hype.
--
Andre
