Subject: Re: Help with setting up a pop server
From: Graham Leggett (minfrin@sharp.fm)
Date: Sun Aug 05 2001 - 15:20:26 MDT
Jim Cole wrote:
> Also references to studies that show sendmail's performance
> to be deplorable as compared to other packages with equal functionality
> would be appreciated.
All the sendmail installations I have encountered deliver mail in a
serial fashion. As a result, if one mail message cannot be delivered for
whatever reason, no other messages can be delivered until the stuck
message times out, and a backlog follows. At high traffic sites this
backlog can cause serious (many hours) delay to email delivery.
A change to an MTA capable of delivering more than one message
simultaneously usually results in an enormous speed increase.
Regards,
Graham
-- ----------------------------------------- minfrin@sharp.fm "There's a moon over Bourbon Street tonight..."
This archive was generated by hypermail 2a24 : Sun Aug 05 2001 - 16:32:56 MDT