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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@cs.yale.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.smail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sendmail vs. Smail...
Date: 18 Dec 1996 20:18:05 -0500
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
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djb@koobera.math.uic.edu (D. J. Bernstein) writes:
> Huh? Anything else would drastically slow down mailing lists. In qmail,
> every delivery happens immediately, subject to the concurrency limit set
> by the sysadmin. This is the obvious way for an MTA to work.
It is the most straight-forward way. I agree. But would it have been really
hard to group messages by destination and then use multiple-rcpts or was
it positively decided that multiple-rcpts was going to slow down transmission
because sometimes it is slower ?
I fail to see why grouping prevents "immediate delivery".
Stefan
PS: the idea is that qmail looks great to basically everyone, but that the
choice of not doing multiple-rcpts does put off several potential users,
whereas it doesn't seem that qmail and mutliple-rcpts are fundamentally
mutually-exclusive. We want the best of both worlds (and of course the
ability to turn off multiple-rcpts for those who prefer it that way)