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Date:      Sat, 23 May 1998 07:12:29 +0200
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD mailing lists with high latency
Message-ID:  <19980523071229.A25554@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <19980523123204.P339@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sat, May 23, 1998 at 12:32:04PM %2B0930
References:  <356613CE.14DAE847@pipeline.ch> <19980523123204.P339@freebie.lemis.com>

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According to Greg Lehey:
> I don't know qmail, but I find it hard to believe that it is really
> "several hundred times" faster.  It's possible that it looks that way
> due to different delivery strategies (try to deliver to all recipients

Qmail would kill hub very fast, considering that it sends a mail per
recipient and doesn't try to group deliveries. It would also make us lose
the traffic cut we enjoy with national/regional relays.

When one mail is sent to the list, one copy goes for all *.fr recipients,
one copy goes for all *.de recipients and so forth. That's bandwidth and
delay reduction for you and where Qmail sucks big time IMO.

Qmail is faster but sends N times as much data as sendmail. Bad bad bad.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #60: Fri May 15 21:04:22 CEST 1998

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