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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: A Serious article for the FreeBSD support group Date: 29 Jun 1996 14:53:24 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4r3g14$s7j@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4qcqts$t61@tzlink.j51.com> <4qk717$9hc@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4qrkv7$53h@hops.entertain.com> <4qrvun$ai8@synge.maths.tcd.ie> <4qucan$8kk@news.ieunet.ie> <4r2r1i$q9n@vanbc.wimsey.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jhenders@wimsey.com (John Henders) wrote: > >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. Are we arguing by examples now? I'm running sendmail on all my sites, ranging from a laptop to a corporate server, and the only problems i once had were related to a setup where other mailers would certainly have given up half the way. (The machine pretended to have many different identities, and it was required to remove traces from one identity for mail going out through the other UUCP link, including rewriting all sender host names, and hiding those that could not be rewritten.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)