Re: Squashing 20,000 rumors...

[Andre Oppermann]

Jeffrey Skelton wrote:
> 
> At 09:10 AM 8/10/99 , Russell Nelson wrote:
> >Stanley Horwitz writes:
> >  > If I am not mistaken, AOL and Hotmail both run qmail and as you
> >  > probably know, there's something like 4,000,000 AOL users. You might
> >  > find more info of this nature on the Qmail Web site.
> >
> >Not AOL.  Hotmail only uses it for outgoing.  They tried using it for
> >incoming, but ran into qmail-send's single-threaded processing of
> >incoming email.  I think they were the first party to ever run into
> >this problem, and I didn't realize what was happening when they asked.
> 
> What about Critical Path? Do they use qmail - or at least
> something derived from qmail.

The do qmail. AFAIK it's pretty much hacked up.

> They host a lot of mailboxes.

Yep. tons.

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Andre