On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:07:00 -0800 , Darren Foo writes:
> Does Sendmail have any advantages over qmail? I'm trying to convince
> people to switch to qmail, but they're view is: Everyone uses sendmail,
> so we should too.
I would list a few things in sendmail's favor:
1) The ability to rewrite headers "up front" without
requiring double delivery (once to a rewriting
program, then again to the destination).
1a) The ability to forward mail, up front....
2) The ability (even if theoretical) to deliver a
message without fsync()ing it into the queue, unless
absolutely necessary.
To be fair, I think qmail has some nice advantages:
1) Elegance -- it just feels like it was designed
by a mathematician ;-)
2) The queue handling -- one persistent process
incrementally creates the queue in memory, so the
queue is read fully only on restart. This beats
the "run the entire queue every <n> minutes" approach
of sendmail.
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Chris Mikkelson | Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur
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