Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:00:55PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:49:40AM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
<snippage>
All the messages are individual.
> > This is also the standard anti-qmail rant that exim supporters use. :)
>
> Indeed. :-)
> | bash-2.05$ telnet colon-ns.colondot.net 25
> | Trying 212.135.138.210...
> | Connected to colon-ns.
> | Escape character is '^]'.
> | 220 colon.colondot.net ESMTP Exim 3.22 #1 Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:06:43 +0100
>
> > > Its delivery strategy after a backlog is also crap, because it's just FIFO.
> > It's been so long since I've used it that I can't really remember what
> > it's like.
>
> As far as I can tell, this is still the case.
>
> > > MBM (really really anti-qm**l)
> > IMHO, the only, really sensible reason to be anti-qmail is the fact that
> > it's not open source and the author is a fascist idiot.
>
> It *is* open-source. It's *not* Free Software. But yeah.
>
> > Aside from that, it's a pretty nice piece of software.
>
> The security separation is interesting, certainly. It can get a bit fiddly,
> though. And its configuration is just dire, and the fact that if it can't
> do something then "That's not in my reading of the spec" is roughly the
> answer you get from its author makes it absolutely a bad choice for me.
>
> But apart from that.
Please gents I did not want to restart the holy warn of MTA's - just how
to write a mailer in perl that manages mulitple [children|threads] that
send mail. I.e avoid managing a queue - I'll use a proper MTA for this.
Greg
>
> MBM
>
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