[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:26:13 -0500 (EST) , Dave Sill writes:
>>
>> Forwarding is not "fancy" or expensive with qmail.
>
>Forwarding and rewriting in qmail do pretty much
>the same thing: deliver to some alias-controlled
>account, and then re-inject the message into the
>queue. That's the expensive part, because then the
>message must go through qmail-send again.
>
>Since re-enqueueing the message involves several
>fsync()s, I think any overhead associated with
>scanning the message content pales by comparison.
I'm not aware of any MTA's that support forwarding with re-injecting
the message.
>> Rewriting is expensive because it's generally the wrong thing to do.
>
>Well, as I said above, I don't agree on the "expensive"
>aspect. Could you elaborate on the wrongess part?
Messages should be created with the correct header contents in the
first place. Munging should be the exception, not the rule.
-Dave
