On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Hotdog wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using qmail 1.03 and sendmail 8.9.1 at the same server. Qmail used for receive
> inbound letters and using sendmail -bs send our mailing list.
> I had to say sometime sendmail is better than qmail,for example,
> while talk to qmail,
> rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (host 'hostN.com' is not a local host)
>
> then qmail will crack this letter to 3 letters,first [EMAIL PROTECTED],then
> [EMAIL PROTECTED],and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] to send it . But sendmail not, it
> will crack this letter to only two letters: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> and [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the reason I am using sendmail but not qmail
> to send outbound letters.
In testing I've done qmail may initiall appear inefficient, but in reality
delivers mail faster than sendmail. this is due to the latency of the
Internet connections to remote hosts -- in parallel sessions to the same
machine I overcome this latency.
> But the problem is, if I let sendmail to be a deamon(-bd),sendmail will
> try to listen port 25(and now qmail listen ? ),and if I not, sendmail
> cannot check the mail queue to delivert queued letters.(manual sendmail
> -q &? :( )
>
> Then how can I do?
sendmail -q15m
will start sendmail and leave it running processing the outbound queue
every 15 minutes. read the manual to see how to specify other
run-intervals.
RjL
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