On Tue 1999-04-13 (09:56), Dave Sill wrote:
> I'm replying to several messages here (see References), but I'm not
> going to bother attributing each quote.
>
> >> >qmail will always be faster than sendmail [unless you send one message
> >> >to a large number of addresses on the same remote host].
> >>
> >> No, qmail will usually win here, too, because sendmail serializes.
> >> Sendmail only wins when the message is huge.
> >
> >Sendmail will win if you use multiple rcpt-to's.
>
> No, SMTP requires too many round trips per recipient.
What I had in mind was that with sendmail you can do:
HELO
MAIL FROM
RCPT TO: <address-1>
RCPT TO: <address-2>
....
RCPT TO: <address-n>
DATA
...
whereas with qmail, since it doesn't do multiple rcpts, you'd have to do:
for i = 1 to n
HELO
MAIL FROM
RCPT TO: <address-i>
DATA
...
QUIT
Remember that we're talking about sending one message to a large number of
addresses on the same remote host. In general qmail is faster, but I think in
this case any MTA that does multiple rcpt to's will be quicker.
> -Dave
- Keith
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