From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 23 20:35:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27339 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 23 May 1998 20:35:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stratos.net (pm3-2-2.stratos.net [207.86.132.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA27327 for ; Sat, 23 May 1998 20:35:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drifter@stratos.net) From: drifter@stratos.net Received: (from drifter@localhost) by stratos.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) id UAA21870; Sat, 23 May 1998 20:05:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980523200556.A21727@stratos.net> Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 20:05:56 -0400 To: IBS / Andre Oppermann , Ollivier Robert Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD mailing lists with high latency References: <356613CE.14DAE847@pipeline.ch> <19980523123204.P339@freebie.lemis.com> <19980523071229.A25554@keltia.freenix.fr> <35670288.CA74291C@pipeline.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <35670288.CA74291C@pipeline.ch>; from IBS / Andre Oppermann on Sat, May 23, 1998 at 07:08:24PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- drifter@stratos.nospam.net (remove nospam to send) "Ever notice that in every commercial about the Internet, advertising geniuses can't resist having a bunch of kids staring into a monitor, awe- struck, looking at a whale jumping out of the ocean? Or is it just me?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message