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From: jhenders@wimsey.com (John Henders)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: A Serious article for the FreeBSD support group
Date: 29 Jun 1996 01:55:14 -0700
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In <4qucan$8kk@news.Ieunet.ie> nick@Ireland.EU.net (Nick Hilliard) writes:

>Smail is ok for small sites and UUCP, but crap for handling medium to large
>volumes of SMTP mail.

What is a medium to large amount of mail? I've got smail on a site with
15000+ users doing over 85K messages a day and smail doesn't seem to be
lagging at all.