From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 23 14:42:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA18426 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 14:42:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA18415 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 14:42:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id XAA10773 ; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 23:41:50 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id XAA18697 ; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 23:41:49 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.3/keltia-uucp-2.7) id TAA19549; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 19:21:19 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199602231821.TAA19549@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: mail routing and duplicates:wq To: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 19:21:18 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from Peter Wemm at "Feb 23, 96 09:45:20 am" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1688 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL7 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Peter Wemm said: > Seriously though, it does have it's downsides.. The mail queues are now > spread all over the planet, and our postmaster (JMB) can't kill bouncing > mail until it eventually times out after 5 days. Maybe it is time to look at "qmail" ? It is a sendmail replacement made by D.J. Bernstein whichi claim to more secure (by using smaller non-root programs) and faster (by parallelizing more and -- I think -- using pre-fork à la httpd). I'll take a look at it anyway. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #1: Tue Feb 20 01:16:51 MET 1996