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From: jhenders@bogon.com (John Henders)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.smail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sendmail vs. Smail...
Date: 7 Dec 1996 01:42:27 -0800
Organization: Bogon Research
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In <589jsm$o2v@ezekiel.eunet.ie> nick@eunet.ie (Nick Hilliard) writes:
>John Henders (jhenders@bogon.com) said:
>: Then why don't you look at exim. It really has the best of both worlds.
>: Human readably config files, and much more flexibility than smail. How
>... but retains smail's poor queueing strategy and lack of header rewriting
>capabilities :-(
Umm, exim has header rewriting. I use it. I don't know what queue
strategy problems you mean, as I've had 7000 messages queued up for a
host we provide secondary MX when it went down with a hard drive crash
for a half a day, and it took less than 40 minutes to send them all when
the machine came up again. A machine I recently changed from smail to
exim used to typically have 1-200 messages in the input queue at any one
time, now it averages about 40.
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