[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Here goes on some feed back ...
> >
> > Very interesting - you seem to have backed up DJb's claims that a well
> > connected host using single RCPTS is probably as good as one using
> > multiple RCPTs. I always thought that Multiple would win hands down....
> >
> > One of my clients is into sending "customized - personal" messages to
> > their members - and we've been looking at an mta solution.
> >
> > We are using sendmail - I'm a big qmail fan, use it it lots of places,
> > but have been reluctant to change a working system. One of the
> > arguments against was the multiple rcpt-to's that qmail does not
> > support.
>
> But a customized email can never use multiple recipients. So that can't
> be an issue in your evaluation.
Well because of performance issue (Management wanted to send all the
messages out in quite a short time - for reasons as yet unexplained!) we
were considereding bining the customised part.
>
> > My question is thus - When does a host become well connected ?
>
> > The Suse box is at an ISP without good bandwidth, the Sun box is in one
> > of the best connected places in the UK (were "well connected" is usually
> > an order of magnitude below the US ). I would define well connected at
> > anything above 512 mbits/sec.
>
> I would say that both of these are well connected. But well connected
> in this context probable means few packet losses and few timeouts
> at the various layers including at the application layer (DNS, SMTP).
Sometimes at UK ISP's well connected is a bit of a broad statement !
One of the ISP has trouble staying up all week ! And we do get some
horrible ping times...
We also run a caching DNS on the Suse box.
Greg
>
> Regards.
