On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Jedi/Sector One wrote:
> Wotta stupid bandwidth starvation : the content is the same than a
> plain text message, but with twice its size.
I have to ask if email is a significant portion of most sites external
bandwidth and so if this is really worth sysadmins time worrying about? At
most Universities certainly one person editing documents on the local
networkor browsing the web probably consumes more bandwidth in one day
than the whole company does for email. (look at http://bill.ja.net/ for
breakdown of international network traffic for UK Universities)
obSome sites like AOL etc will be moving alot of email, but even then I'm
quite sure the size of the email messages being moved is fairly
insignificant to the number of messages being moved. even if message
doubled on size by using HTML this would have much less of an effect on
machines than doubling the number of messages. Looking at he performance
patches for qmail they are all geared towards: larger number of messages
in the queue, delivering more messages in parallel.
RjL
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