Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 16:32:38 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch> Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org>, scrappy@hub.org, nate@mt.sri.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: People getting automatically unsub'ed from -arch Message-ID: <v04205504b42a45f1b0da@[195.238.21.204]> In-Reply-To: <380494D7.56B8E863@pipeline.ch> References: <19991012142522.57A98152AF@hub.freebsd.org> <38038AA5.45796B87@pipeline.ch> <v04205504b4293cb18531@[195.238.21.204]> <380395E7.2D38E200@pipeline.ch> <v04205500b42951a335e4@[195.238.21.204]> <38047B0A.CC0C61BD@pipeline.ch> <v04205502b42a3d1099aa@[195.238.21.204]> <380494D7.56B8E863@pipeline.ch>
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At 4:19 PM +0200 1999/10/13, Andre Oppermann wrote: > That is something qmail has done since the beginning. With respect to qmail, I have no knowledge of that. I do know that this feature was available in the first public beta of Postfix. It was introduced early in the "alpha" stage of Postfix, which from Wietse would be comparable to the late beta, gamma, or even "release" stages of software from many other authors. > I consider qmail and postfix equal, one is stronger > in one direction whereas the other one is stronger in other aspects. I am not aware of any advantages that qmail has over Postfix. However, I am aware of a number of advantages that I believe Postfix has over qmail. Of course, this is more of that religious issue that we should only get into on private e-mail. > I have no intend to "fight" religiously for qmail, the only > thing I do is pointing out the strong aspects of qmail/ezmlm for > big lists. Support for VERPs definitely has its advantages, and I believe that this has long since been incorporated into Postfix. Of course, I could be wrong -- it's been a very long time since I did much of anything with it, and I could be mis-remembering this feature. > I would like, but you just said you would (can) not tell me about it... At the moment, all I can say is that you should keep a very close eye on the releases of Sendmail Pro. I expect these features to be incorporated into that code first, then make their way into RFCs, and be released as part of the freely available version of sendmail shortly thereafter. Imagine orders of magnitude levels of reduction in the amount of traffic that would have to be transmitted to a remote MTA that serves more than one customer. In fact, you could have MTAs distributed all around the world that have their own portion of the world that they serve, with very small amounts of data (streamed, even) that must be transmitted in order to serve the set of customers. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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