On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:31:43AM -0400, Dan Melomedman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:54:41AM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
> > This approach has many advantages as you could easily find out through
> > reading the qmail list archives.
> What advantages? I haven't read the list, but can't immediately see any
> advantages.
Come on, the qmail list archive is full of discussions regarding this.
Usually it's by far faster to push 20 concurrent connections to a remote
server instead of opening one and delivering one after each other (as long
as you have enough bandwidth - qmail amy not be the best solution on small
bandwidth links), and it allows things like VERP. Please, if you are further
interested in this topic use the (stock-) qmail list's archives.
> > > > I guess Courier is the next big thing in open MTAs.
> > I beg to differ.
> Time will tell. Qmail hasn't been updated by Dan in how many years?
It did not _need_ an update. This is a good thing. I don't want to update my
servers software every few days due to security bugs found (and this is a
major reason not to run linux for me, but that's OT).
Dan is working on qmail 2.0 for a long time now. As you might have dicovered
with other djbware, dan doesn't publish it until he has a version he's happy
with. For example, djbdns appeared somewhere in 2000, and Dan started
working back in 1997 or 98 if memory serves me right.
> New version of Apache (currently in beta) is multi-threaded if
> you didn't know.
That's not true. Per default a mixed process/thread model is used.
I don't like apache 2 too much. looks a bit bloated. But I haven't
investigated it to much.
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