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From: Paul Southworth <pauls@locust.cic.net>
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On Wed, 31 May 1995, Nate Williams wrote:

> FWIW, our ISP recently switched *from* Zmailer back to sendmail after
> they had lots of problems with it.  According to our ISP, Zmailer didn't
> support things such as aliases, .forward file, and such w/out alot of
> work and in their environment sendmail was much easier to maintain over
> the long-term.

There is periodic discussion about this on comp.mail.sendmail.  From what 
I've seen, a lot of sites are switching back to sendmail v8 from zmailer, 
and a lot of them are doing it for reasons of load handling (and a number 
of them were very large sites).

--Paul