Silver CHEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The mail reason that I can't switch to qmail is that I'm NOT
>familiar with qmail in early days, so I chose sendmail.
You can install qmail without removing/breaking sendmail, so you can
revert to sendmail easily.
> I've read all the articles about the topic 'qmail speed'. Now I'm
>wonder that if qmail can do this too? If the design spirit of qmail
>can't afford such high-loading task in short time, then sendmail
>takes the chance back.
qmail was designed for higher performance than sendmail. The "qmail
speed" thread was about a particular type of mass mailing that's much
harder than sending the same message to a large list: in this case,
the message was customized for each recipient. Instead of one message
with 100,000 recipients, he was sending 100,000 different messages to
one recipient each.
> As I know, hotmail use qmail as its base(?) but hotmail is slow, slow,
>and unreliable 'sometimes'. I don't know what will happen if hotmail
>choose sendmail as its base now, but I'm curious on this topic.
Hotmail, last time I checked, used qmail for outgoing mail, zmailer
for incoming mail. If it's slow and unreliable, it's not because it
uses qmail, it's because it's too busy or poorly run. If sendmail
would have been better than qmail+zmailer, they probably would have
used it.
-Dave
