Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 20:05:56 -0400 From: drifter@stratos.net To: IBS / Andre Oppermann <andre@pipeline.ch>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD mailing lists with high latency Message-ID: <19980523200556.A21727@stratos.net> In-Reply-To: <35670288.CA74291C@pipeline.ch>; from IBS / Andre Oppermann on Sat, May 23, 1998 at 07:08:24PM %2B0200 References: <356613CE.14DAE847@pipeline.ch> <19980523123204.P339@freebie.lemis.com> <19980523071229.A25554@keltia.freenix.fr> <35670288.CA74291C@pipeline.ch>
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Are you the marketing director for Qmail, Inc.? I spent a good
amount of money and am spending a good amount of time with that
ORA "$endm@i!" book.
You, sir, are a threat to my investment and very
dangerous :) You must be stopped.
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 07:08:24PM +0200, IBS / Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Ollivier Robert wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> No, it would not kill hub.
>
> Grouping doesn't give much performance in this case since less than 5%
> (IMO) of the recipcients have the same MX.
>
> You are still in the old UUCP times with your 'one copy to all *.fr
> recipients'. I don't think that all *.fr subscribers have the same MX.
> You can only do better with sendmail if you send, lets say, 100 messages
> to the same MX.
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