Re: [Q] qmail speed "again"

[Richard Letts]

On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Keith Burdis wrote:

> Remember that we're talking about sending one message to a large number of
> addresses on the same remote host. In general qmail is faster, but I think in
> this case any MTA that does multiple rcpt to's will be quicker.

if the effect latency of the connection is greater than the bandwidth
between the end systems multiple connections will complete faster than
multiple rcpts. In general this is true:  the latency of my dialup
connection is a greater effect than the bandwidth on sending messages),
the latency between my ISP and the rest of the Internet is greater than
its bandwidth...

I think you should get information on latency for message from a machine
running a large distribution lst to see where it's spending its time

Richard