Subject: Re: Help with setting up a pop server
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Sun Aug 05 2001 - 18:08:23 MDT
This might be the case for many default installations, but there are ways
around the problem you mention. Running with multiple queues. Running with
short timeouts and a sweeper process to pick up the stragglers. No doubt
life is simpler with an MTA that "just does it", but I don't think anyone
is arguing that sendmail is the simplest solution ;)
Jim
Graham Leggett's bits of Sun, 5 Aug 2001 translated to:
>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
>
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